October Revolution Island
October Revolution Island is the largest island of the Severnaya Zemlya group in the Russian Arctic. It is named after the October Revolution which led to the former Russian Empire becoming a Socialist country.
June 2001 satellite image of October Revolution Island showing the numerous ice caps
Raising of the Russian flag at Cape Berg during the 1913 Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition.
Severnaya Zemlya is a 37,000 km2 (14,000 sq mi) archipelago in the Russian high Arctic. It lies off Siberia's Taymyr Peninsula, separated from the mainland by the Vilkitsky Strait. This archipelago separates two marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean, the Kara Sea in the west and the Laptev Sea in the east.
Krenkel Bay in Komsomolets Island
Russian 2013 stamp set featuring Boris Vilkitsky, his ships and the landscape of the area - dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Severnaya Zemlya.
View of the remains of abandoned Izluchina Russian polar station at the northern end of Komsomolets Island
Terra-MODIS image of Severnaya Zemlya in 2001