Severnaya Zemlya any traces of land to the north of the wide strait between the Kara Sea and the Laptev Sea that they navigated. The archipelago was not put on the map until the 1913–1915 Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition of icebreakers "Taimyr" and "Vaigach". The chief organiser and first captain of the Vaygach was officer Aleksandr Vasiliyevich Kolchak of the Imperial Russian Navy. The expedition was privately financed and was launched in 1910, being led by Boris Vilkitsky on behalf of the Russian Hydrographic Service. This venture accomplished its goal of exploring the uncharted areas of the continental side of the Northern
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