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Novaya Zemlya

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No·va·ya Zem·lya  (nv-y zml-ä, zm-lyä)
An archipelago of north-central Russia in the Arctic Ocean between the Barents and Kara seas. Consisting of two main islands and many smaller ones, the archipelago has mineral deposits and an economy based on fishing, sealing, and trapping.
Novaya Zemlya (Russian) [ˈnɔvəjə zɪmˈlja]
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(Placename) an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, off the NE coast of Russia: consists of two large islands and many islets. Area: about 81 279 sq. km (31 382 sq. miles)
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Noun1.Novaya Zemlya - two islands in the Arctic Ocean belonging to Russia; site of a test center for nuclear warheads
Nova Zembla
Russian Federation, Russia - a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state
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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.
Jago, Lucy. The Northern Lights; the true story of the man who ... by Boardman, Edna M. / Kliatt
 
 
 
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