Operation Wunderland
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Operation Wonderland was an operation from 16 to 30 August 1942 by the Kriegsmarine in the Barents Sea and the Kara Sea off the Arctic coast of the Soviet Union. The operation was an attack on Soviet
Recognition drawing of Admiral Scheer
Admiral Scheer at sea (photographed c. 1935)
Novaya Zemlya
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Novaya Zemlya, also spelled Novaja Zemlja, is an archipelago in northern Russia. It is situated in the Arctic Ocean, in the extreme northeast of Europe, with Cape Flissingsky, on the northern island,
Operation Wunderland
…Land (Zemlya Frantsa Iosifa), Northern Land (the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago) and parts of the coasts of the Taymyr Peninsula (Poluostrov Taymyr and Novaya Zemlya (New Land). Accurate maps had been drawn by the use of Photogrammetry on the aerial photographs. Information on ice conditions and navigational problems…
Willem Barentsz' ship among the Arctic ice.
A perception of a "Zemblien", a Novaya Zemlya native, by a 17th-century French traveller
Landscape in Novaya Zemlya, Russian Arctic National Park
Wide shot of Novaya Zemlya