Novaya Zemlya Novaya Zemlya Novaya Zemlya (, lit. "the new land"), also known as Nova Zembla (especially in Dutch), is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean in northern Russia and the extreme northeast of Europe, the easternmost point of Europe lying at Cape Flissingsky on the Northern island. West of Novaya Zemlya is the Barents Sea, and to the east is the Kara Sea. Novaya Zemlya is composed of two main islands, the northern Severny Island and the southern Yuzhny Island, which are separated by the Matochkin Strait. Administratively, it is incorporated as Novaya Zemlya District, one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk
Jean Balfour 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 data. Her data has been used in collaboration with