Yuzhny Island

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Yuzhny Island
South island
South island
Waters Arctic Ocean
Archipelago Novaya Zemlya
Geographical location 71 ° 45 '  N , 53 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 71 ° 45 '  N , 53 ° 55'  E
Yuzhny Island (Arctic)
Yuzhny Island
length 334 km
width 138 km
surface 33,275 km²
Highest elevation 1342  m
Residents 2716 (2002)
<1 inh / km²
main place Beluschja Guba

The Juschny-Insel ( Russian Южный остров / Juschny ostrow , scientific transliteration Južnyj ostrov , translated South Island ) the southern of the two main islands of the Russian archipelago Nowaja Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean .

It is surrounded to the west by the Barents Sea and to the east by the Kara Sea . It is only separated from Severny Island by the very narrow Matotschkin Schar strait and from mainland Russia by, among other things, the Kara Strait .

Unlike Severny Island, Juschny Island is only glaciated over a small area and is largely covered by tundra .

The island was traditionally inhabited by Nenets , but most of them were relocated in the course of Soviet nuclear tests in the 1950s.

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