Cape Zhelaniya ( Russian : Мыс Желания , Mys Zhelaniya ; желание being Russian for 'wish/desire') is a headland in the Russian Federation . It is an important geographical landmark. The area in the vicinity of the cape is a desolate place, exposed to bitter Arctic winters. The cape along with the surrounding part of Novaya Zemlya is protected as part of Russian Arctic National Park .
6-689: Cape Zhelaniya is located at the northern end of Severny Island , the northern island of Novaya Zemlya . This headland is a geographic point of reference to mark the separation between the northern ends of the Barents Sea and the Kara Sea . It belongs administratively to the Arkhangelsk Oblast of the Russian Federation . The cape was named by Dutch explorer William Barents in 1595 as Den Hoeck der Begeerte , which means "Cape Desire". There
12-501: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Severny Island Severny Island ( Russian : Се́верный о́стров , romanized : Severnyy ostrov , lit. 'Northern Island') is a Russian Arctic island . It is the northern island of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. It was historically called Lütke Land after Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke , who explored it. It lies approximately 400 km north of
18-660: Is the largest glacier by area and by volume in Europe (if counted as part of it). Severny Island is known for its numerous glaciers . Cape Flissingsky is the easternmost point of Severny Island. Severny Island has a cold tundra climate ( Köppen climate classification ET ), with average temperatures barely reaching the freezing mark in the warmest months. The temperature varies from −5 to −37 °C (23 to −35 °F) in winter to −9 to 5 °C (16 to 41 °F) in summer. Unlike Yuzhny Island, Severny has an inner ice cap with numerous glaciers , most of which have their terminus on
24-574: The Russian mainland. It has an area of 48,904 square kilometres (18,882 sq mi), making it the 30th-largest island in the world and the 3rd-largest uninhabited island in the world. It is part of Russian Arctic National Park . Severny Island is separated from Yuzhny Island ( Southern ) by the narrow Matochkin Strait . Forty percent of the island is covered by the Severny Island ice cap , which
30-471: The eastern or western shore of the island. The cape of Sukhoy Nos , located at the southern end of the island, was used for nuclear weapons testing between 1958 and 1961. The Tsar Bomba hydrogen bomb test on October 30, 1961 destroyed all buildings in the village of Severny (both wooden and brick). The village was located 55 kilometres (34 miles) from ground zero within the Sukhoy Nos test range. Tsar Bomba
36-750: Was a Soviet Arctic station in Cape Zhelaniya in World War II which was shelled by the Kriegsmarine during Operation Wunderland . It became a secret experimental station during the Cold War while a multitude of nuclear tests, including 88 atmospheric ones, were conducted in Novaya Zemlya. It functioned as a weather station until 1994, and since 2005 there has been an automatic meteorological station located here. This Arkhangelsk Oblast location article
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