Definition of Novaya zemlya

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

Exact synonyms: Nova Zembla
Group relationships: Russia, Russian Federation
Generic synonyms: Island

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

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Nov-Esperanto
Nov-Latin
Nov.
Nova
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotian
Nova Scotian Sign Language
Nova Scotians
Nova Zembla
Nova scotia lox
Novara
Novatian
Novatianism
Novatians
Novaya Zemlya
November
November 1
November 11
November 2
November 5
November moth
Novembers
Novembery
Novembr
Novembre
Novgorod
Novgorodian
Novgorodians
Novi Sad

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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