Severnaya Zemlya
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Severnaya Zemlya Се́верная Земля́ |
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| Archipelago | |
View of Krenkel Bay in Komsomolets Island
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 Location of Severnaya Zemlya off northernmost continental Russia |
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 Severnaya Zemlya
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| Coordinates: 79°30′0″N 97°15′0″E / 79.50000°N 97.25000°ECoordinates: 79°30′0″N 97°15′0″E / 79.50000°N 97.25000°E | |
| Country | Russian Federation |
| Federal subject | Krasnoyarsk Krai |
| District | Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District |
| Major islands | October Revolution, Bolshevik, Komsomolets, Pioneer, Schmidt |
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Arctic Ocean Kara Sea / Laptev Sea |
| Highest point | Mount Karpinsky (965 m (3,166 ft)) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 37,000 km2 (14,000 sq mi) |
| Population (2016) | |
| • Total | 0 |
| (No permanent population) | |
| Time zone |
UTC+07:00 (Krasnoyarsk, Indochina) |
Severnaya Zemlya (Russian: Се́верная Земля́ (Northern Land), IPA [ˈsʲevʲɪrnəjə zʲɪˈmlʲa]) is a 37,000-square-kilometre (14,286-square-mile) 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 marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean, the Kara Sea in the west and the Laptev Sea in the east. The largest glacier in the Russian Federation, the Academy of Sciences Glacier, is located in Severnaya Zemlya.
Severnaya Zemlya was first noted in 1913 and first charted in 1930–32, making it the last sizeable archipelago on Earth to be explored. Administratively, the islands form part of Russia's Krasnoyarsk Krai federal subject. In Soviet times there were a number of research stations in different locations, but currently there are no human inhabitants in Severnaya Zemlya except for the Prima Polar Station near Cape Baranov.
Severnaya Zemlya is notable in connection with the ongoing multi-year Arctic sea ice decline. Until recently, ice joined the islands to Eurasia even at its smallest extent during the late summer melt season, blocking the Northeast Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific. By the late summer of 2012, however, the permanent ice had reached a record low extent and open water appeared to the north of the archipelago.
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