Vize Island or Wiese Island (Russian: Остров Визе, Ostrov Vize or Земля Визе, Zemlya Vize) is an isolated island located in the Arctic Ocean at the northern end of the Kara Sea, roughly midway between Franz Josef Land and Severnaya Zemlya, its latitude is 79° 30' N and its longitude 76° 54' E. It belongs to the Krasnoyarsk Krai administrative division of Russia.
This island is desolate and subject to severe Arctic storms, but it has no glaciers. In the summer, large areas of the island are free of ice and snow. Its total area is 289 km². Compared to other Arctic islands it is relatively large and flat, its highest point being only 30 m. The closest land is lonely Ushakov Island 140 km further north.
Owing to its extreme northerly location, the surrounding sea is covered with pack ice in the winter, and it is quite full of ice floes even in the summer.
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