Yuzhny Island
Yuzhny Island | ||
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South island | ||
Waters | Arctic Ocean | |
Archipelago | Novaya Zemlya | |
Geographical location | 71 ° 45 ' N , 53 ° 55' E | |
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length | 334 km | |
width | 138 km | |
surface | 33,275 km² | |
Highest elevation | 1342 m | |
Residents | 2716 (2002) <1 inh / km² |
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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.
Photo gallery
NASA satellite image around Beluschja Guba