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Novaya Zemlya

American  
[noh-vuh-yuh zem-lee-ah, naw-vuh-yuh zyim-lyah] / ˈnoʊ və yə ˌzɛm liˈɑ, ˈnɔ və yə zyɪmˈlyɑ /

noun

  1. two large islands in the Arctic Ocean, N of and belonging to the Russian Federation. 35,000 sq. mi. (90,650 sq. km).


Novaya Zemlya British  
/ ˈnɔvəjə zɪmˈlja /

noun

  1. an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, off the NE coast of Russia: consists of two large islands and many islets. Area: about 81 279 sq km (31 382 sq miles)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Novaya Zemlya is now waiting for some experts to arrive.

From NewsForKids.net • May 3, 2024

Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu visited Russia's testing ground in the remote northern archipelago of Novaya Zemlya in August.

From Reuters • Oct. 18, 2023

The images showed construction work on Novaya Zemlya, an island archipelago in the northern Barents Sea.

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2023

They predicted that the displacement of groundwater alone causes a shift in the North Pole of 4.36 centimetres per year, roughly in the direction of Russia’s Novaya Zemlya islands.

From Scientific American • Jun. 21, 2023

At Novaya Zemlya, however, of all places, the conditions were tolerably favourable, and, as we have seen, the trophy of a "flash-spectrograph" was carried off.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

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