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==Brekhovskie Islands==
The Brekhovskie Islands (Russian-language article: ''[[:ru:Бреховские острова|Бреховские острова]]'') lie in the Yenisey estuary and have an area of some 1,400,000 hectares. They provide a wetland habitat for rare and endangered birds and are an internationally important nesting and breeding area for several types of [[waterfowl]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rsis.ramsar.org/ris/698|title=Brekhovsky Islands in the Yenisei Estuary|website=ramsar.org|publisher=Ramsar Sites Information Service|access-date=18 March 2022|archive-date=14 January 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250114131342/https://rsis.ramsar.org/ris/698|url-status=dead}}</ref> The most north-easterly of the islands, Nosonovskij Ostrov ("Nose Island") was visited by [[Fridtjof Nansen]] in 1913.<ref>{{cite book |last=Nansen |first=Fridtjof |author-link=Nansen  |date=1914 |title=Through Siberia, the Land of the Future |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924021571710/page/80/mode/2up |location=London |publisher=William Heinemann |page=80}}</ref>