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Definition of Nova Zembla

1. Noun. Two islands in the Arctic Ocean belonging to Russia; site of a test center for nuclear warheads.

Definition of Nova Zembla

1. Proper noun. (alternative spelling of Novaya Zemlya) ¹

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Literary usage of Nova Zembla

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Polar World: A Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and by Georg Hartwig (1869)
"Hunting Expeditions of the Russians to Nova Zembla. sea of Kara, bounded on the west by Nova Zembla, and on the east by the vast peninsula of ..."

2. The Library of American Biography by Jared Sparks (1854)
"Explores an Inlet, or River, in Nova Zembla. — Resolves to return. ... to find a northeast passage to the East Indies, by going to the north of Nova Zembla. ..."

3. Handbook of Polar Discoveries by Adolphus Washington Greely (1907)
"CHAPTER III Nova Zembla AS is well known, the principal part of this land is ... The islands of Nova Zembla have always been classified as uninhabitable, ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Willoughby, after discovering Nova Zembla (Novaya Zemlya) by sighting the coast of Goose Land, resolved to winter in a harbor of Lapland, where he and all ..."

5. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1875)
"The geological formation of Nova Zembla is a continuation of the Ural system. ... Nova Zembla was unknown to the navigators of western Europe prior to the ..."

6. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1910)
"On the border of the Atlantic low pressure area are found Greenland, Iceland, Spitzbergen, Norway, Franz Josef Land and Nova Zembla, each with its upland ..."

7. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1884)
"De Overwintering der Hollanders op Nova Zembla," by Tollens, is spoken of as the chef ... The Hollanders in Nova Zembla (1596-1597). An Arctic Poem. ..."

8. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1884)
"A.*—"De Overwintering cler Hollanders op Nova Zembla," by Tollens, is spoken of as the chef ... The Hollander,* in Nova Zembla (1596-1597). An Arctic Poem. ..."

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