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
Jean Balfour "The Rising Tide" regarding women in traditionally male-dominated fields. Jean Balfour Jean Balfour ( née Drew, 4 November 1927) is a Scottish professional forester, landowner and conservationist. She earned her B.S. with honours from the University of Edinburgh in 1949. She married John Charles Balfour in 1950. Balfour is a partner/owner of Balbirnie Home Farms and Balbirnie Dairy Farm. The Scourie estate is also owned by her. Balfour is interested in arctic alpine vegetation and has taken part in many botanical expeditions including Greenland, Ellsemere Island, Spitzbergen, Franz Joseph Land, Novaya Zemlya, Severnaya Zemlya, and arctic Siberia to collect field