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  Novaya Zemlya - LoveToKnow 1911
NOVAYA ZEMLYA (Nova Zembla, " new land"), an Arctic land off the coast of European Russia, to which it belongs, consisting of two large islands separated by a narrow winding channel, the Matochkin Shar.
Novaya Zemlya is colder than Spitsbergen (which lies more to the N.) as in some degree it shares in the continental conditions of northern Russia and Siberia.
Novaya Zemlya seems to have been known to Novgorod hunters in the 11th century; but its geographical discovery dates from the great movement for the discovery of the N.E. passage.
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 Russian Arctic - Novaya Zemlya
Novaya Zemlya (Новая Земля) consists of two main islands (although at low resolution it appears as a single landmass) and numerous smaller offshore islets and rocks with a total land area of 90,650 km².
The islands of Novaya Zemlya (New Land) form an approximately 1,000 km long curving arc that varies in width from 40 km in the north to 150 km in the south.
Novaya Zemlya is the northernmost reach of the Ural Mountain Range that stretches for 4,000 km to the south towards the Aral Sea region of Central Asia.
www.oceandots.com /arctic/russia/novaya-zemlya.htm   (0 words)

  
 RIA Novosti - Opinion & analysis - Novaya Zemlya: birds, animals adapt to nuclear test site
Novaya Zemlya is the largest archipelago in the European Arctic, and occupies an area of 83,000 square kilometers.
Half of the northern section of Novaya Zemlya is a polar desert covered in ice, while tundra occupies the remainder of the archipelago.
The coast of Novaya Zemlya boasts diverse biota - there are rookeries of marine animals and the famous bird bazaars.
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 Earthquake or Nuclear Test?
This is the 4th of 5 small earthquakes near Novaya Zemlya since 1986 that has been cited by the U.S. Defense Department (DoD) as being of either suspicious or problematic origin in terms of nuclear verification.
Novaya Zemlya and surrounding waters is an area of low natural earthquake activity, a so-called intraplate region in the parlance of plate tectonics.
Thus, of the 5 small earthquakes in and near Novaya Zemlya of the last 11 years, only that of 1986 was large enough to have an mb value comparable to that of an explosion of a few kilotons evasively tested.
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 EOM Current Issues
The climate of Novaya Zemlya is also influenced by the Gulf Stream, but to a considerably lesser degree than with the Kola Peninsula.
Novaya Zemlya is further east and somewhat further north, thus the Gulf Stream water is mixed with cooler water in the Barents Sea to the west of Novaya Zemlya.
During the NUPI satellite study of Novaya Zemlya, it became apparent that some important areas within the test site were constantly in shadow or very poorly illuminated by the sun.
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 Case Study
Novaya Zemlya, beginning in 1954, was exclusively used by Russia for almost 40 years as a nuclear testing area, atmospherically, underground, and in the surrounding oceans.
Lately researchers have begun to discover that Novaya Zemlya was also used as a graveyard for various nuclear weapons, submarines, and reactors, sunk to the bottom of the ocean.
Testing of the weapons was deemed essential in order to assure their potency.(Nilsen, 2) The first tests were done in 1955 while Novaya Zemlya was still populated not to mention that Russia started to dump the waste from its reactors into the waters surrounding the islands.
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 Novaya Zemlya - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Novaya Zemlya, archipelago, northwestern Russia, in the Arctic Ocean.
Franz Josef Land (Russian Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa), archipelago, northwestern Russia, in the Arctic Ocean, east of the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard...
OFFICIALS VISIT NOVAYA ZEMLYA, NOTE SERIOUS PROBLEMS A group of senior Russian officials, including First Deputy Defense Minister Nikolay Mikhaylov, Minister of Atomic Energy Yevgeniy Adamov, and...
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 Moscow Denies US Reports that Russia is Planning Nuclear Tests
The information presented to Congress about possible preparations for major tests on Novaya Zemlya was contained in a report by the Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence Committee, a panel that collects the views of many federal agencies on nuclear issues, the Times reported Sunday.
The assessment in the report described a pattern of technical activities on Novaya Zemlya the Arctic equivalent of the US nuclear test range in the state of Nevada that matched known Russian activities to prepare for past nuclear tests, the newspaper quoted officials as saying.
The intelligence report on Novaya Zemlya was included in a broader briefing to Congress on cooperative programs between the United States and Russia to reduce threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, a project that includes tracking Moscow's compliance with a number of arms control agreements, including the test-ban treaty.
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  Novaya Zemlya: birds, animals adapt to nuclear test site.
Novaya Zemlya is the largest archipelago in the European Arctic, and occupies an area of 83,000 square kilometers.
Half of the northern section of Novaya Zemlya is a polar desert covered in ice, while tundra occupies the remainder of the archipelago.
The coast of Novaya Zemlya boasts diverse biota - there are rookeries of marine animals and the famous bird bazaars.
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 Novaya Zemlya
The archipelago of Novaya Zemlya (Russian: Но́вая Земля́, "New Land"; formerly known as Nova Zembla) consists of two major islands in the Arctic Ocean in the north of Russia, separated by the narrow Matochkin Strait, and a number of smaller ones.
Novaya Zemlya separates the Barents Sea from the Kara Sea.
The islands' indigenous population of about 100 persons is Nenet, while the Russians knew of Novaya Zemlya from the 11th or 12th century, when traders from Novgorod visited the area.
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/n/no/novaya_zemlya.html   (374 words)

  
 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The archipelago is administered by Arkhangelsk Oblast as Novaya Zemlya District.
Novaya Zemlya consists of two major islands, separated by the narrow Matochkin Strait, and a number of smaller ones.
As Novaya Zemlya was a sensitive military area during the Cold War years, the Russian Air Force maintained a presence at Rogachevo air base on the southern part of the island.
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 arctic russia
Zemlya Franca Josifa (Frans Josef Islands), and the Novo Sibirskie Ostrova (New Siberian Islands).Finally there is Ostrov Wrangel in the Chukchi sea.
Novaya Zemlya can therefore be seen as the most northern part of the Urals.
Novaya Zemlya and Ostrov Vaigach (between Novaya Zemlya and the main land) are mainly known as fossil localities.
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 Bellona shocked with Russian statements on possibility to resume nuclear tests - Bellona   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bellona, 20/07-2006 "We are guided by reality and maintain the testing ground in a state of permanent readiness, simultaneously observing all of the commitments assumed," Ivanov told the press in Novaya Zemlya, mentioning that several nuclear powers have not ratified the nuclear test ban treaty.
Novaya Zemlya is the northern extension of the Ural Mountains which divide the European and Asian continents.
Novaya Zemlya is made up of two islands divided by the Matochkin Strait.
www.bellona.org /articles/Novaya_Zemlya_tests   (424 words)

  
 Geography in the News--NUCLEAR WATERS: NOVAYA ZEMLYA   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Novaya Zemlya (NOH-vuh-yuh zem-lee-AH) is the name of two very large and remote islands belonging to Russia.
The Soviets saw Novaya Zemlya’s isolation and barren landscape suitable for nuclear testing and the neighboring ocean for dumping spent nuclear waste.
Novaya Zemlya increasingly will become the testing ground for studies involving health implications of nuclear dumping and abandonment in the ocean.
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 Novaya Zemlya repository plan scrapped   (Site not responding. Last check: )
From 1957 to 1962, 79 atmospheric nuclear explosions were conducted at Novaya Zemlya, including the most powerful in Russia’s history — a 58-mega tonne yield — conducted in 1961.
Novaya Zemlya is the northern extension of the Ural Mountains, which divide the European and Asian continents.
Novaya Zemlya consists of two islands divided by the Matochkin Strait.
www.bellona.no /en/international/russia/nuke-weapons/nuke-test/27489.html   (719 words)

  
 Catalogue of fossils and geological material from Novaya Zemlya,U.S.S.R.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
P., Andreeva, I. and Sokolov, N. Paleogeography of Novaya Zemlya and of contiguous regions in the Ordovician - Devonian.
Rysyúkov, I. The geological construction of the western shores of the South Island of Novaya Zemlya from Belúshy'a Bay to Domashnaya Bay.
Trilobites from the Ozarkian sandstones of the island of Novaya Zemlya.
www.toyen.uio.no /palmus/catalogues/novaya_zemlya/index.html   (4160 words)

  
 Arctic Science Journeys Radio: Russian Arctic Pollution
A map of the southern end of Novaya Zemlya shows Chernaya Bay and the Kara and Barents Sea, which are located east of the Scandinavian Peninsula, in the Russian Arctic Shelf region.
Novaya Zemlya was the site of more than 200 nuclear tests conducted from 1955 to 1962, according to published CIA reports.
Novaya Zemlya was quite interesting in that we found exceedingly high levels of plutonium in the Chernaya Bay sediments.
seagrant.uaf.edu /news/00ASJ/12.14.00_RussianPollution.html   (784 words)

  
 Testimony: Ivan Yevsyugin, World Uranium Hearings, 9/17/92, Salzburg
It is the movement "To Novaya Zemlya" in the region and in our district.
I want to say that the sea space of the Barents and the Kara Seas, which wash around the archipelagos of Novaya Zemlya, serves as a place for the final storage of radioactive waste.
Novaya Zemlya was reorganized by this decree as the central testing site of the Russian Federation and was incorporated into the federal property of the Russian Federation.
www.ratical.com /radiation/WorldUraniumHearing/IvanYevsyugin.html   (754 words)

  
 Story of the Day / PressPATROL / Media Monitoring Agency WPS
This was Ivanov's response to a question about whether his heightened interest in Novaya Zemlya is somehow connected to a possible response from Russia to US intentions to resume nuclear tests at the Nevada test site.
The total yield of all nuclear bombs tested at Novaya Zemlya came to 240 megatons, or 94% of all yield in Soviet tests.
Novaya Zemlya was also the location of the world's largest nuclear explosion, when a 100-megaton hydrogen bomb was tested at 50% capacity.
www.wps.ru /en/pp/story/2006/07/26.html   (1150 words)

  
 Russian Arctic - Severnaya Zemlya
Severnaya Zemlya (Северная Земля), translated as "North Land", are a group of islands located off the Taymyr Peninsula on the central Arctic coast of Siberia.
They are separated from the mainland by the often ice-bound Vilkitskogo Strait, and are bound by the Kara Sea on the west and by the Laptev Sea on the east.
Climatic conditions on the islands are severe, with an mean annual temperature of -16 °C. image: MODIS rapid response project at nasa/goddard space flight center.
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 Novaya Zemlya   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The archipelago of Novaya Zemlya ("New Land"; formerly known as Nova Zembla) consists of two major islands in the Arctic Ocean in the north of Russia, separated by the narrow Matochkin Strait, plus a number of smaller ones.
They have been used a lot as a nuclear testing site, especially in the period of the Soviet Union.
The Russians knew of Novaya Zemlya from the 11th or 12th century, when traders from Novgorod visited the area.
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 Russia Plans Nuclear Dump for Soviet Test Site
Novaya Zemlya is the northern extension of the Ural Mountains which divide the European and Asian continents.
Anti-nuclear activists say that Novaya Zemlya is far from cities or villages where people may organize effective public control over operations of nuclear industry.
A history of nuclear explosions on Novaya Zemlya is reported by the Norwegian Bellona Foundation.
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It is the movement "To Novaya Zemlya" in the region and in our district.
I want to say that the sea space of the Barents and the Kara Seas, which wash around the archipelagos of Novaya Zemlya, serves as a place for the final storage of radioactive waste.
Novaya Zemlya was reorganized by this decree as the central testing site of the Russian Federation and was incorporated into the federal property of the Russian Federation.
www.ratical.org /radiation/WorldUraniumHearing/IvanYevsyugin.txt   (0 words)

  
 May be stored on Novaya Zemlya   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The planned completion of engineering and geological research on Novaya Zemlya by the end of 1998 is likely to be beyond the schedule.
The Novaya Zemlya study was launched in 1991.
The repository was to be located by settlement Bashmachnyi on the southern island of Novaya Zemlya archipelago.
www.bellona.no /en/international/russia/waste-mngment/8478.html   (424 words)

  
 Novaya Zemlya
Early on the morning of Saturday 16 August 1997, there was a small seismic event in the Kara Sea, about 100 kilometres from the nuclear test site on the far northern island of Novaya Zemlya now used by Russia for nuclear weapons research (Fig.
To a seismologist, the evidence is straightforward: the event took place several tens of kilometres offshore to the southeast of Novaya Zemlya, in an area where water depths are around 400 metres.
Of course, there will be some earthquakes on the land area of Novaya Zemlya, and, indeed, near other countries’ test sites — on 12 September a magnitude 4 earthquake took place directly under the US nuclear test site in Nevada.
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 The "line"
The rectangular sun or the Novaya Zemlya effect.
Sometimes the camera froze or there was clouds, but all indications are, in Resolute, Novaya Zemlya effects are a by-daily event from beginning of February until end of April, fall observations are pending.
However older Inuit, the aborigines of the Arctic, are quite familiar with the rectangular sun, although none questioned have a name for it.
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 Russia - Novaya Zemlya - Russia blog
Novaya Zemlya is one of the most northerly points of land on Earth, lying at latitude of approximately 73 degrees north.
Novaya Zemlya is part of Russia and traders from the Novgorod area first traveled there over 1,000 years ago.
Novaya Zemlya consists of two main islands separated by the Matochkin Straight, which is very narrow and often iced over.
www.russia.com /blog/russia-novaya-zemlya   (589 words)

  
 CNS - Renewed U.S. - Russian Controversy Over Nuclear Testing - May 27, 2002 - Research Story of the Week
Novaya Zemlya was chosen because of its permafrost conditions: groundwater can be found only at a depth of 600 meters.
The uncertainty over the nature of activities at the Novaya Zemlya nuclear test site in northern Russia has frequently been a factor in U.S. government decisions on stockpile stewardship and participation in international treaties.
These tests on Novaya Zemlya are usually held late in the fall due to the heavy snow cover prevailing during the rest of the year.
cns.miis.edu /pubs/week/020527.htm   (0 words)

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