Novaya Zemlya – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Thu, 05 Sep 2019 17:00:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg Novaya Zemlya – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Five New Islands Charted Off Novaya Zemlya https://www.maproomblog.com/2019/09/five-new-islands-charted-off-novaya-zemlya/ Thu, 05 Sep 2019 16:57:33 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1787710 More]]> Climate change means retreating glaciers, which exposes new islands, which means new maps. BBC News reports that five new islands off the northeast coast of Novaya Zemlya, an archipelago in the Russian Arctic that was the site of hundreds of nuclear tests, were mapped by a Russian expedition. The islands were discovered in satellite photos by then-student Marina Migunova, now a naval oceanographic engineer.

Previously: New Map of Greenland and the European Arctic.

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