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Se⋅ver⋅na⋅ya Zem⋅lya

  [sev-er-nuh-yah -zem-lee-ah; Russ. syi-vyir-nuh-yah zim-lyah]
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an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, between the Kara Sea and Laptev Sea, in N Russia. 14,175 sq. mi. (36,712 sq. km).
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Se·ver·na·ya Zem·lya   (sěv'ər-nə-yä' zěm'lē-ä', -lyä', syĭ-vyĭr-)   
An archipelago of northern-central Russia in the Arctic Ocean north of the Taymyr Peninsula. Discovered in 1913, the group comprises three major islands and several smaller ones.
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Severnaya Zemlya

archipelago, Krasnoyarsk kray (region), northern Russia. It lies in the Arctic Ocean between the Kara Sea (west) and Laptev Sea (east). Severnaya Zemlya lies immediately north of Cape Chelyuskin, the most northerly point in Siberia, from which it is separated by Vilkitsky Strait

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