New Siberia

New Siberia is an island in Russia’s New Siberian Islands archipelago, between the Laptev and East Siberian seas. It is the archipelago’s largest island.

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New Siberian Islands: A Russian Arctic archipelago between the Laptev and East Siberian seas. New Siberia is the largest island in this archipelago.
Kotelny Island: A large island in Russia’s New Siberian Islands archipelago. It is one of the archipelago’s principal islands alongside New Siberia.
Russian Arctic National Park: A Russian protected area encompassing parts of the Arctic, including sections of the New Siberian Islands. Protected-area management shapes activity across the wider archipelago.
Yakutsk: A city in eastern Siberia and the capital of the Sakha Republic, Russia. Exploration of the New Siberian Islands was organized from this Siberian center.
Arctic amplification: The Arctic’s tendency to warm faster than the global average. This broader warming pattern is reshaping conditions around New Siberia.
Laptev Sea: A marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia. This sea lies west of New Siberia.
Faddeyevsky Island: An island in the New Siberian Islands archipelago, east of Kotelny Island. It forms part of the archipelago’s central island group.
Arctic Ocean: The smallest and shallowest of Earth’s five oceans, surrounding the Arctic region. New Siberia’s seas and climate belong to this ocean system.
Yakov Permyakov: A Russian explorer and merchant associated with early Russian expeditions to the New Siberian Islands. His reported 1712 expedition helped bring the islands to Russian notice.
Coastal erosion: The wearing away and retreat of shorelines through natural processes. Warming and thawing can accelerate erosion along the island’s coasts.