Russian Arctic islands Russian Arctic islands The Russian Arctic islands are a number of islands groups and sole islands scattered around the Arctic Ocean. The islands are all situated within the Arctic Circle and are scattered through the marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean, namely, the Barents Sea, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, East Siberian Sea, Chukchi Sea and Bering Sea. The area extends some from Karelia in the west to the Chukchi Peninsula in the east. The largest of the Arctic islands is Severny Island, with an area of about . It is Russia's second largest island next to Sakhalin Island, and the
Kara Ben Nemsi In the story "An der Tigerbrücke" (within "Am Stillen Ocean", 1894) the first-person narrator mentions, that he is identical to Kara Ben Nemsi and Old Shatterhand. Within the book series "Karl May’s Gesammelte Werke" there is a sequel of "Am Jenseits": „In Mekka“ (1923) by Franz Kandolf. Kara Ben Nemsi Kara Ben Nemsi (in Arabic: كارة بن نمسي Karl The [Son of] Austrian, meant was "Karl the son of Germans") is a fictional character in the works of Karl May, best-selling 19th century German writer. An alter ego of the author, everything is written from the first person perspective. He