New Siberia
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Key facts
- Location
- between the Laptev Sea and East Siberian Sea
- Coordinates
- 75°05′14″N 148°27′30″E / 75.08722°N 148.45833°E / 75.08722; 148.45833
- Archipelago
- New Siberian Islands
- Area
- 6,202 km (2,395 sq mi)
- Highest elevation
- 76 m (249 ft)
- Highest point
- unnamed
- Territory
- Yakutia
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Anzhu Islands
- Country
- Sakha
- Located in
- Bulunsky District
- Population
- 0
- Area
- 6201
- Elevation
- 79
- Time zone
- UTC+11:00
- Body of water
- Arctic Ocean
- Image
- New Siberia - Landsat.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1806-00-00
- located in/on physical feature
- New Siberian Islands
- native label
- Саҥа Сибиир арыы
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Encyclopedic overview
Location of New Siberia in the Russian Federation. New Siberia or Novaya Sibir (/ˈnoʊvaɪə sɪˈbɪər/; Russian: Но́вая Сиби́рь, Nóvaya Sibír', [ˈnovəjə sʲɪˈbʲirʲ]; Yakut: Саҥа Сибиир, romanized: Saña Sibiir) is the easternmost of the Anzhu Islands, the northern subgroup of the New Siberian Islands lying between the Laptev Sea and East Siberian Sea. Its area of approximately 6,200 square kilometres (2,394 square miles) makes it the 102nd largest islands in the world. New Siberia Island is low lying, rising to only 76 metres (249 feet) and covered with tundra vegetation. The island is a part of the territory of Russia's Sakha Republic.
Geology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “New Siberia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.