Location of Novaya Zemlya, including the site of the Tsar Bomba detonation
Geography
Location
Arctic Ocean
Coordinates
74°N56°E / 74°N 56°E / 74; 56
Major islands
2
Area
83,000 km2 (32,000 sq mi)
Highest elevation
1,547 m (5075 ft)
Highest point
Gora Kruzenshterna
Administration
Russia
Federal subject
Arkhangelsk Oblast
Largest settlement
Belushya Guba (pop. 1,972)
Demographics
Population
3,576 (2021)
Pop. density
0.04/km2 (0.1/sq mi)
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Novaya Zemlya (/ˌnoʊvəjəˈzɛmliə/, also UK: /ˌnɒv-,-aɪ.ə-/, US: /-zɛmˈl(j)ɑː/;[1][2] Russian: Но́вая Земля́, IPA:[ˈnovəjəzʲɪmˈlʲa], lit.'New Land') 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, considered the easternmost point of Europe. To Novaya Zemlya's west lies the Barents Sea and to the east is the Kara Sea.
Novaya Zemlya consists of two main islands, the northern Severny Island and the southern Yuzhny Island, which are separated by the Matochkin Strait. Administratively, it is incorporated as Novaya Zemlya District, one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.[3] Municipally, it is incorporated as Novaya Zemlya Urban Okrug.[4]
Novaya Zemlya was a sensitive military area during the Cold War, and parts of it are still used for airfields today. The Soviet Air Force maintained a presence at Rogachevo on the southern part of the southern island, on the westernmost peninsula (71°37′04″N52°28′44″E / 71.61787°N 52.47884°E / 71.61787; 52.47884). It was used primarily for interceptor aircraft operations, but also provided logistical support for the nearby nuclear test area. Novaya Zemlya was one of the two major nuclear test sites managed by the USSR; it was used for air drops and underground testing of the largest of Soviet nuclear bombs, in particular the October 30, 1961, air burst explosion of Tsar Bomba, the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated.
^Wells, John C. (2008). Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (3rd ed.). Longman. ISBN 978-1-4058-8118-0.
^Upton, Clive; Kretzschmar, William A. Jr. (2017). The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English (2nd ed.). Routledge. p. 910. ISBN 978-1-138-12566-7.
The NovayaZemlya effect is a polar mirage caused by high refraction of sunlight between atmospheric thermal layers. The effect gives the impression that...
suggests that the lemmings of NovayaZemlya may also belong to this species; this would extend its range east to NovayaZemlya island, but these results have...
on Vaygach Island south of NovayaZemlya) is a cape on Severny Island, the northern island of the archipelago NovayaZemlya, projecting westward into the...
Южный остров, lit. southern island) is the southern island of Russia's NovayaZemlya archipelago, lying north of mainland Russia. It has an area of 33,275...
000 metres (13,000 ft) above the cape Sukhoy Nos of Severny Island, NovayaZemlya, 15 km (9.3 mi) from Mityushikha Bay, north of the Matochkin Strait...
1955 at NovayaZemlya. Test of the T-5 torpedo on October 10, 1957 at NovayaZemlya. Test of the T-5 torpedo on October 23, 1961 at NovayaZemlya. The People's...
distant objects. Other optical phenomena associated with this include the NovayaZemlya effect, in which the Sun has a distorted shape and rises earlier or...
center of NovayaZemlya District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Gusinaya Zemlya peninsula of the Yuzhny Island of the NovayaZemlya arctic...
reach the North Pole. Starting in July 1872, the vessel drifted from NovayaZemlya to a new landmass, which they named in honor of Franz Joseph I (1830–1916)...
exactly which route he proposed to take. Rusanov's ship Hercules reached NovayaZemlya in August 1912, where he sent a message that he was continuing east;...
Island') is a Russian Arctic island. It is the northern island of the NovayaZemlya archipelago. It was historically called Lütke Land after Friedrich Benjamin...
(island) reindeer, classified as the NovayaZemlya reindeer (R. t. pearsoni) occupy several island groups: the NovayaZemlya Archipelago (about 5,000 animals...
Kola Peninsula. In 1910, he took part in a trip to the northern tip of NovayaZemlya, where he met G. Y. Sedov; in the same year he exhibited his paintings...
strait, structurally a fjord, between the Severny and Yuzhny Islands of NovayaZemlya. It connects the Barents Sea and the Kara Sea. The Matochkin Strait...
northwest, Franz Josef Land to the northeast and NovayaZemlya to the east. The islands of NovayaZemlya, an extension of the northern end of the Ural Mountains...
degrees below the horizon. This is called the NovayaZemlya effect, because it was first observed in NovayaZemlya, where the Sun was seen when, according to...
and are subspecies of Rangifer tarandus. Tundra reindeer include the NovayaZemlya (R.t.pearsoni) and Sápmi (R.t. tarandus) subspecies and the Siberian...
the far north in search for a Northeast passage. He reached as far as NovayaZemlya and the Kara Sea in his first two voyages, but was turned back on both...
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guarantees.": 12 In 1870 Nenets people were permanently settled on NovayaZemlya by the Russian Empire to prevent Norwegian expansion. The traditional...
east and submarines in the Pacific Ocean as the missiles flew towards NovayaZemlya. Both of these radar systems were aimed east and were fairly low power...
Russian high Arctic Gusinaya Zemlya, a peninsula in the Russian Arctic, the largest peninsula of NovayaZemlya Malaya Zemlya, an outpost in southern Russia...
Severnaya Zemlya Ushakov wrote: I have seen God-forsaken Chukotka Peninsula, blizzard-ridden Wrangel Island, twice visited fog-enshrouded NovayaZemlya, and...
explores NovayaZemlya 1765–1766: Vasily Chichagov explores the Kola Peninsula coast and Spitzbergen 1768–1769: F. F. Rozmyslov explores NovayaZemlya and...
Ostrobothnia, Kainuu and Lappi), Russia (Murmansk, Siberia, Nenets Okrug, NovayaZemlya), the United States (Alaska), Canada (Yukon, Northwest Territories,...
oblast). It includes the Arctic archipelagos of Franz Josef Land and NovayaZemlya, as well as the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea. Arkhangelsk Oblast...
for example, the curved margin north of the Urals running parallel to NovayaZemlya was probably deformed during the eruption of the Siberian Traps in the...
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