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
Clean Seas from mining company Centrex Metals to export iron ore from Port Lincoln. Centrex Metals' iron ore mining and export plans did not eventuate. Hagen Stehr, the founder of Clean Seas, stepped down from his position as Chairman of Clean Seas Tuna in 2009. At the time, he said that the company was transitioning from a research and development company to commercialisation. The company reported a $12 million loss in 2009. In September 2010, the "Sydney Morning Herald" reported that Clean Seas staff killed 80 tonnes of stock as a result of human error while "bathing" the fish in hydrogen peroxide.