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	Russian Arctic - Vaygach Island
		Vaygach (Вайгач) lies in the Barents Sea region of the Russian Arctic, lying a few kilometers across the Yugorsky Shar Strait from the coast of northwestern Russia, and northeast from the mouth of the Pechora River (sediment plumes from the Pechora River are just visible at the bottom-left corner of the above image).
		Vaygach measures around 100 km in length with a width of up to 45 km and covers an area of 3,398 km²;.
		Vaygach is a continuation of the Pay-Khoy mountain range (bottom-right of the image), and on a larger scale is part of the Ural Mountain belt that runs from the southern Russia up through to Novaya Zemlya in the far north.
	www.oceandots.com /arctic/russia/vaygach.htm (179 words)

	Vaygach - Encyclopedia.com
		Vaygach or Vaigach, island, 1,312 sq mi (3,398 sq km), Nenets Autonomous Area, off NE European Russia, in the Arctic Ocean, between the mainland and Novaya Zemlya.
		Two settlements, Vaygach and Varnet, are on the island.
		An important difference between Vaygach and the other 2 domestic populations is that Vaygach reindeer are mostly kept free to range...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Vaygach.html (290 words)

	Vaygach: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		The north range of the Urals is continued seaward by Vaygach Island and the arcuate islands of Novaya Zemlya.
		...in Russia and christened Taymyr and Vaygach after the area in which they were expected...belonged to the crews of the Taymyr and Vaygach who put up a beacon there in 1911.
		VAYGACH or Vaigach both: vigach, island, 1,312 sq mi (3,398 sq km), Nenets Autonomous Area, off NE European Russia, in the...continuation of the Pay-Khoy range, the island is covered with tundra and has zinc, copper, and lead deposits.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/vaygach.jsp?l=V&p=1 (438 words)

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		It separates the Barents Sea on the W. from the Kara Sea on the E. With Vaygach Island, between it and the mainland, Novaya Zemlya forms a continuation of the Pae-Khoy hills.
		Vaygach is separated from it by the Kara Strait, 30 M. wide, and from the continent by the Yugor or Ugrian Strait, only 7 M. across.
		On the E. coast of Novaya Zemlya, especially between the Matochkin Shar and 75° N., there are a number of fjord-like inlets—such as Chekina, Rasmyslov and Medvizhiy bays.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=48879 (1654 words)

	Russian Arctic - Vaygach Island (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vaygach (Вайгач) lies in the Barents Sea region of the Russian Arctic, lying a few kilometers across the Yugorsky Shar Strait from the coast of northwestern Russia, and northeast from the mouth of the Pechora River (sediment plumes from the Pechora River are just visible at the bottom-left corner of the above image).
		Vaygach measures around 100 km in length with a width of up to 45 km and covers an area of 3,398 km²;.
		Vaygach is a continuation of the Pay-Khoy mountain range (bottom-right of the image), and on a larger scale is part of the Ural Mountain belt that runs from the southern Russia up through to Novaya Zemlya in the far north.
	oceandots.com /arctic/russia/vaygach.htm (179 words)

	Testimony: Dr. Anna Ledkova, World Uranium Hearings, 9/17/92, Salzburg
		According to the words of the resident Olga Andrejevna, who lives now in Naryan-Mar, on the 15th of July 1957, all the working people were given money equivalent to the sum of 1,200 rubles, they were put on a ship and taken to Arkhangelsk.
		Later on they gave the Russians flats, but the Nentsy wanted to settle in the Nenets region, and at the end of September 1957, they were taken again to the islands of Kalguyev, Vaygach and to the town Naryan-Mar.
		On the island of Vaygach, a reindeer breeder from the island of Vaygach said to me one day: "I always feel the explosions.
	www.underground-book.com /chapters/uranium/AnnaLedkova.html (2844 words)

	AllRefer.com - Vaygach (CIS And Baltic Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Vaygach or Vaigach[both: vIgAch´] Pronunciation Key, island, 1,312 sq mi (3,398 sq km), Nenets Autonomous Area, off NE European Russia, in the Arctic Ocean, between the mainland and Novaya Zemlya.
		A continuation of the Pay-Khoy range, the island is covered with tundra and has zinc, copper, and lead deposits.
		Two settlements, Vaygach and Varnet, are on the island.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/Vaygach.html (181 words)

	Steven Borough - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Separated by a storm from the Bona Esperanza and the Bona Confidentia, the other two ships of the expedition, Borough proceeded on his voyage alone, and sailing into the White Sea, in the words of his epitaph, "discouered Moscouia by the Northerne sea passage to St. Nicholas (Archangel)".
		In a second expedition, made in the Serchthrift in 1556, he discovered Kara Strait, between Novaya Zemlya and Vaygach island.
		In 1560 he was in charge of another expedition to Russia, and, probably in 1558, he also made a voyage to Spain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steven_Borough (399 words)

	Willem Barents - LoveToKnow 1911
		He reached the west coast of Novaya Zemlya, and followed it northward, being finally forced to turn back when near its northern extremity.
		In the following year he commanded another expedition of seven ships, which made for the strait between the Asiatic coast and Vaygach Island, but was too late to find open water; while his third journey equally failed of its object and resulted in his death.
		On this occasion he had two ships, and on the outward journey sighted Bear Island and Spitsbergen, where the ships separated.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Willem_Barents (264 words)

	Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project \| History \| Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition
		The Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition represented a sustained and impressive effort by the Imperial Russian Navy to explore, survey, and chart the Northern Sea Route with a view to developing it as a commercial route.
		The expedition was provided with two specially built icebreaking research vessels, Tamyr and Vaygach.
		The two ships made a brief sortie through Bering Strait into the Chukchi Sea in the fall of 1910.
	www.whoi.edu /beaufortgyre/history/history_aohydro.html (453 words)

	Russia - MSN Encarta
		Farthest north, in the Arctic Ocean, is Franz Josef Land, an archipelago consisting of about 100 small islands.
		The other main Arctic islands, from west to east, include the two islands of Novaya Zemlya, Vaygach Island, the group of islands called Severnaya Zemlya, the New Siberian Islands, and Wrangel Island.
		Between these major islands lie numerous small islands and island chains.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569000_3/Russia.html (1939 words)

	novaya zemlya arctic artic nova zembla barents
		Holocene relative sea-level history of North Novaya Zemlya and Vaygach Island
		Size and extent of the last ice sheets in the Barents Sea: evidence from Novaya Zemlya and Vaygach
		INSTAAR at Franz Josef Land, Novaya Zemlya, and Vaygach Island
	www.xs4all.nl /~jzeebe1/novaya_zemlya1.html (293 words)

	DX News Letter 1240 April 16, 2001
		Vaygach Island is situated at 70°10' North and 59° East in the Barents See (part of the Arctic Ocean) northeast of the Ural mountains between the mainland and Novaya Zemlya Island.
		The tundra like island was discovered by the Russian captain Vaygach in the 16th century.
		Nowadays it has two small villages Vaygach and Varnet mostly populated by miners.
	www.his.com /~wfeidt/Dxnl/dxnl1240.html (1002 words)

	Asian Art Mall Blog » Explorers
		For Barents’ second trip, he took a full expedition with him to include seven vessels, heading out the following year in 1595.
		This time, they headed for the strait located between the Asiatic coast and Vaygach Island.
		Unfortunately, they had headed out on this voyage too late in the year to find open water.
	www.latinartmall.com /wordpress/category/asian-history/explorers (9487 words)

	Amazon.com: "Vaygach Island": Key Phrase page
		See all pages with references to "Vaygach Island".
		They would build a base on one of the Arctic's many islands-perhaps Vaygach Island, at the entrance to the Kara Sea-which...
		The result was William's chart depicting the whole route from western Norway to Vaygach Island,...
	amazon.com /phrase/Vaygach-Island (324 words)

	The largest nuclear icebreaker \| Science Portal
		This is 522-foot long and 100-foot wide vessel, with deadweight of 25,000 metric tons, and meant for a 138-person crew.
		The Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker fleet managed by the Murmansk Shipping Company, includes today five Arktika-class icebreakers (Arktika, Sibir, Rossiya, Sovetskiy Soyuz and Yamal), and two Taymyr-class river icebreakers (Taymyr and Vaygach).
		Taking into account development of the Arctic shelf and increased traffic along the Northern Sea route, Russia will need 6 to 10 such icebreakers in the next 20 years, experts consider.
	www.science-portal.net /in/27 (230 words)

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