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Archipelagoes of the Kara Sea

  • Severnaya ZemlyaOn the 3rd of September 1913, members of Boris Vilkitsky's expedition landed on what is now Cape Berg. They raised a Russian flag and named the new territory…
  • Novaya ZemlyaThe northern island of Novaya Zemlya holds a massive ice cap that covers its interior. This Severny Island stretches across the Arctic Ocean in extreme…
  • Franz Josef LandIn 1865, the Norwegian sealing vessel Spidsbergen sailed northeast from Svalbard. Captain Nils Fredrik Rønnbeck and harpooner Johan Petter Aidijärvi spotted…