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Novaya Zemlya

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Novaya Zemlya

Arctic island group belonging to the Russian Federation; area 81,279 sq km/31,382 sq mi. A few Samoyed (people from northwest Siberia) inhabit the area. It is rich in birds, seals, and walrus.

The archipelago lies in the Arctic Ocean between the Barents Sea and the Kara Sea. It is a continuation northwards of the Urals and is divided into two large and numerous small islands by the narrow strait of Matochkin Shar. The islands extend 925 km/575 mi from north to south.
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Countries including Britain have had to offer Russia billions of dollars to decommission more than 160 nuclear submarines, but at least 12 nuclear reactors have been dumped, along with more than 5,000 containers of solid and liquid nuclear waste, on the northern coast and on the island of Novaya Zemlya.
Russia plans to build five floating Arctic nuke stations by Asian News International
The solar eclipse on the 1st is total along a narrow band that stretches from the islands of NE Canada, across N Greenland, Novaya Zemlya and Russia to an end-point in China.
Starwatch by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
He built four stations, one near the northern tip of Sweden, the others at the islands of Iceland, Spitsbergen, and Novaya Zemlya, and maintained crews at them during the arctic winter.
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