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island group in Russia, part of New Siberian Islands

Key facts

Country
Russia
Federal subject
Far Eastern Federal District
Republic
Yakutia
Website
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Located in
Sakha
Body of water
Arctic Ocean
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Encyclopedic overview

The Anzhu Islands or Anjou Islands (Russian: Oстрова Анжу, romanized: Ostrova Anzhu; Yakut: Анжу арыыларa, romanized: Anju arıılara) are an archipelago and geographical subgroup of the New Siberian Islands archipelago. They are located between the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea in the Arctic Ocean, being separated from the Lyakhovsky Islands by the Sannikov Strait.

Etymology

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anzhu Islands” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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