Severnaya Zemlya Severnaya Zemlya Severnaya Zemlya ( (Northern Land), ) is a archipelago in the Russian high Arctic. It lies off Siberia's Taymyr Peninsula, separated from the mainland by the Vilkitsky Strait. This archipelago separates two marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean, the Kara Sea in the west and the Laptev Sea in the east. Severnaya Zemlya was first noted in 1913 and first charted in 1930–32, making it the last sizeable archipelago on Earth to be explored. Administratively, the islands form part of Russia's Krasnoyarsk Krai federal subject. In Soviet times there were a number of research stations in different locations,
Zemlya Georga Zemlya Georga has three capes pointing southwestwards on its southern coast: "Cape Neale" (the westernmost end of the island), "Cape Crowther" and "Cape Grant". Its easternmost cape is known as "Mys Murray". The two capes pointing north, "Mys Bryusa" and "Mys Battenberg", are separated from each other by "Sommerville Bay". The westernmost cape of this peninsula is "Mys Mul'tanovskogo", beyond which lies the sound known as "Proliv Arkhangelskiy" between Zemlya Georga and Alexandra Land. The sound known as "Cambridge Channel" (Proliv Kambritch) is located further to the southwest. There are no permanent inhabitants on the island however there is a