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In 1943, Novaya Zemlya briefly served as a secret seaplane base for Nazi Germany 's Kriegsmarine, to provide German surveillance of Allied shipping en route to Siberia. The seaplane base was established by U-255 and U-711, which were operating along the northern coast of Soviet Russia as part of 13th U-boat Flotilla.
Severnaya Zemlya (Russian: Сéверная Земля́, lit. 'Northern Land', pronounced [ˈsʲevʲɪrnəjə zʲɪmˈlʲa]) is a 37,000 km 2 (14,000 sq mi) archipelago in the Russian high Arctic. It lies off Siberia 's Taymyr Peninsula, separated from the mainland by the Vilkitsky Strait.
Academy of Sciences Glacier. The Academy of Sciences Glacier (Russian: ледник Академии наук; Lednik Akademii Nauk) is a large ice cap on Komsomolets Island, Severnaya Zemlya, Russian Federation. It is the largest in Severnaya Zemlya and is also the largest single glacier formation of Russia.
Severny. Severny Island (Russian: Се́верный о́стров, romanized: Severnyy ostrov, lit. 'Northern Island') is a Russian Arctic island. It is the northern island of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. It was historically called Lütke Land after Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke, who explored it. It lies approximately 400 km north of the ...
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is an national park of the United States located in Southeast Alaska west of Juneau. President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the area around Glacier Bay a national monument under the Antiquities Act on February 26, 1925. [4] Subsequent to an expansion of the monument by President Jimmy Carter in 1978, the ...
Inostrantsev Glacier terminus. Severny Island, west coast. Zvezda Glacier in the Caucasus. Teberda Nature Reserve. Shore of Bennett Island, De Long Islands. The ice cap on top consists of four separate glaciers. View of the ice cap covering Schmidt Island. Severnaya Zemlya. Belukha Glacier in the Altai Range.
The Nordenskiöld Glacier group is located on the eastern side of the northern Severny Island of Novaya Zemlya. Flowing from the Severny Island ice cap, it is composed of four roughly north–south oriented tidewater glaciers: Their fronts have widths of over 3 km on average and their terminuses are in the Kara Sea between Cape Opasnyy and Cape ...
The Kamchatka Peninsula[ a ] (Russian: полуостров Камчатка, romanized:poluostrov Kamchatka, pronounced [pəlʊˈostrəf kɐmˈt͡ɕætkə]) is a 1,250-kilometre-long (777 mi) peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of about 270,000 km 2 (100,000 sq mi). [ 3 ]