Tag: glaciers
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Windswept ridges and fallout trace human histories on Komsomolets Island
At the top edge of the map Few islands seem less interested in human company. Komsomolets Island lies in the high Russian Arctic, the northernmost major island of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago, set between the Kara Sea and the Laptev Sea and divided from October Revolution Island by the Red Army Strait. Even by polar…