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    Novaya Zemlya (/ˌnoʊvəjə ˈzɛmliə/, also UK: /ˌnɒv-, -aɪ.ə -/, US: /- zɛmˈl(j)ɑː/; Russian: Но́вая Земля́, IPA: [ˈnovəjə zʲɪmˈlʲa], lit. 'New Land') is...
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    Reindeer in Russia include tundra and forest reindeer and are subspecies of Rangifer tarandus. Tundra reindeer include the Novaya Zemlya (R.t.pearsoni)...
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    tundra reindeer herds have been in decline but are stable or increasing since 2000. Insular (island) reindeer, classified as the Novaya Zemlya reindeer (R...
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    Severnaya Zemlya Ushakov wrote: I have seen God-forsaken Chukotka Peninsula, blizzard-ridden Wrangel Island, twice visited fog-enshrouded Novaya Zemlya, and...
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    (Finnish forest reindeer) R. t. groenlandicus (Barren-ground caribou) R. t. osborni (Osborn's caribou) R. t. pearsoni (Novaya Zemlya reindeer) R. t. pearyi...
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    Ural Mountains (category Novaya Zemlya)
    the continents of Europe and Asia. Vaygach Island and the islands of Novaya Zemlya form a further continuation of the chain to the north into the Arctic...
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    Nikolai Pinegin (category Novaya Zemlya)
    Kola Peninsula. In 1910, he took part in a trip to the northern tip of Novaya Zemlya, where he met G. Y. Sedov; in the same year he exhibited his paintings...
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    Sea, a section of the Arctic Ocean between the Yamal Peninsula and Novaya Zemlya, is thawing. According to a CAGE researcher, Aleksei Portnov: "The permafrost...
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    Ostrobothnia, Kainuu and Lappi), Russia (Murmansk, Siberia, Nenets Okrug, Novaya Zemlya), the United States (Alaska), Canada (Yukon, Northwest Territories,...
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    Yugorsky Peninsula in the mainland by the Yugorsky Strait and from Novaya Zemlya by the Kara Strait. The island is a part of Nenets Autonomous Okrug...
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    explorer. Nordenskiöld Fjord in Peary Land, Greenland Nordenskiöld Bay, Novaya Zemlya Nordenskiöld Glacier, East Greenland Nordenskiöld Glacier, Northwest...
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  • approximately 500 Indigenous persons were relocated from Novaya Zemlya to make way for nuclear testing. The reindeer living on the island either died or were relocated...
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  • Doppelschlag ("Double blow") (1942) – German anti-shipping operation off Novaya Zemlya by Admiral Scheer and Admiral Hipper Drachenhöhle (1944) – aborted attack...
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    at Kola, they explored the Barents Region and the Kola peninsula and Novaya Zemlya. Later the Pomor discovered and maintained the Northern Sea Route between...
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  • sixty, with only a single blue whale being saved. He then sailed to Novaya Zemlya, capturing two humpbacks there. After cruising off Russia and Norway...
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    beyond the Arctic Circle in that era added only small islands, such as Novaya Zemlya (11th century) and Spitzbergen (1596), though, since these were often...
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  • downwards from above the prow) delivering new dogs to the Samoyeds on Novaya Zemlya and their being invited on board to listen to a gramophone recording...
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    Norway fixing the boundary between the Svalbard archipelago and the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. Increased interest in petroleum exploration in the Arctic...
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    northeast of the Pechora Delta. Nenets is located in the Northwest Russian-Novaya Zemlya tundra ecoregion. This ecoregion covers the northeast shore of the White...
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    Middle Ages. Russia traded polar bear products as early as 1556, with Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land being important commercial centres. Large-scale...
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    conditions in the Barents Sea predicated the existence of a landmass between Novaya Zemlya and Svalbard. The report received little attention at the time, but...
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    Behouden Huys: A Survey of the Remains of the House of Willem Barentsz on Novaya Zemlya, LOUWRENS HACQUEBORD, p. 250" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF)...
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    Russian islands and archipelagos in the Arctic Sea include Novaya Zemlya, Severnaya Zemlya, and the New Siberian Islands. About 10 percent of Russia is...
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    rewarding ethnic Russians with the natives' reindeer herds and wild game they had confiscated. The reindeer herds have been mismanaged to the point of...
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    and the extremely short growing seasons, is restricted to the herding of reindeer in the tundra—which has been practiced by natives for over 10,000 years...
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    defined by Russian legislation as running from the entrances to the Novaya Zemlya straits in the west, along the Russian Arctic coast above Siberia through...
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    Siberian Islands Novaya Zemlya Russian Arctic islands Sakha Republic (most of the Republic south of the Arctic Circle) Severnaya Zemlya (Russia) Siberia...
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    discovered Spitsbergen and Bear Island, and rounded the north end of Novaya Zemlya. Fearing English and Dutch penetration into Siberia, Russia closed the...
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    1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). Arctic hunting, from Novaya Zemlya to Canada, started up around 1820. By 1850, Tromsø was the major centre...
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    range throughout most of the Arctic isles of Russia such as Novaya Zemlya, Severnaya Zemlya, New Siberian Islands, Wrangel Island, Commander and Hall Islands...
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