Severnaya Zemlya
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Severnaya Zemlya is a 37,000 km2 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 mar
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
View of Schmidt Island with its ice cap.
Kara Sea
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The Kara Sea is a marginal sea, separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and from the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. Ultimately the
Severnaya Zemlya
…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. Severnaya Zemlya was first discovered in 1913 and first charted in 1930–1932, making it the last sizeable…
Fragmented sea ice within the Barents Sea marginal ice zone southeast of Svalbard, 5 May 2016
Hovercraft on Kara Sea shore