Novaya Zemlya

American  

[noh-vuh-yuh zem-lee-ah, naw-vuh-yuh zyim-lyah] / ˈnoʊ və jə ˌzɛm liˈɑ, ˈnɔ və jə zjɪmˈljɑ /

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).

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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)

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Novaya Zemlya

Belushya Guba is a small town on one of the two main islands of Novaya Zemlya, in the far north of Russia.

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

Of this ice are formed most of the ice-fields in the seas east of Greenland, north of Spitzbergen, between Spitzbergen and the north island of Novaya Zemlya, and north of Behring's Straits.

From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie