Yuzhny Island

The South Island (Russian Южный остров / Youzhny ostrow, scientific transliteration Južnyj ostrov ) is 33,275 km ² and one of the two main islands of the Russian archipelago of Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean.

The South Island is surrounded to the west of the Barents Sea and in the east of the Kara Sea. From the North Island it is separated only by a very narrow strait Matotschkin crowd and the Russian mainland, among others, by the Karastraße.

Unlike the North Island it is glaciated only a small area and is covered largely by tundra.

The island was traditionally inhabited by the Nenets, however, were resettled in the wake of Soviet nuclear testing in the 1950s for the most part.

• Island ( Russia)
• Island ( Arctic Ocean)
• Island ( Europe)
• Novaya Zemlya
• Nuclear weapons test site