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Definition of Novaya zemlya
1. Noun. Two islands in the Arctic Ocean belonging to Russia; site of a test center for nuclear warheads.
Definition of Novaya zemlya
1. Proper noun. An archipelago in the Arctic Ocean in the north of Russia, administered by Arkhangelsk oblast. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Novaya Zemlya
Literary usage of Novaya zemlya
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voyage of the Vega Round Asia and Europe: With a Historical Review of by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1885)
"IF we do not take into account the few Samoyeds who of recent vears have settled
on novaya zemlya or wander about during summer on the plains of ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"novaya zemlya is colder than Spitsbergen (which lies more to the N.) as in some
... Traces of Eocene deposits have not been discovered on novaya zemlya. ..."
3. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"At the northern Goose Cape, on the western coast of novaya zemlya, about 70° N.
and thus not far north, in the year 1875, considerable tracts inland as well ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1880)
"At any rate, whether his position is correct or not, there is little doubt but
that he sailed to the northward of novaya zemlya without any hindrance from ..."
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