Cape Neupokoyev Cape Neupokoyev Cape Neupokoyev (, "Mys Neupokoyeva") is a headland in Severnaya Zemlya, Russia. Cape Neupokoyev is located north of the Vilkitsky Strait and stretches out southwestwards into the Kara Sea. This headland is the southernmost point of Bolshevik Island and of Severnaya Zemlya. There are beach ridges and swales close to Cape Neupokoyev, with the Neupokoyev Lagoon () located right to the east of the headland. Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld during the Vega Expedition in 1878 sailed very close to this cape but did not notice it. In 1882 Danish Arctic explorer and naval officer Andreas Peter Hovgaard, leader of
Marat Fjord fjord the whole year round. Marat Fjord Marat Fjord (, "Fiord Marata"), is a fjord in Severnaya Zemlya, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. This fjord is blocked by ice most of the year. Although the shore of the island further north had been visited by Boris Vilkitsky's Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition in 1913, Vilkitsky surveyed the eastern shores of what is now known as Severnaya Zemlya in a fragmentary way —he did not explore the Shokalsky Strait and assumed that the whole of Severnaya Zemlya was one single landmass. This fjord was first surveyed and put in the map at the time