Severny Island ice cap is an

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Severny Island Severny Island (russian: Се́верный о́стров, Severnyy ostrov, 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 ...

, northern island of the

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. It covers 40% of Severny Island (which is the 30th largest island in the world) at total area of approximately which, if Novaya Zemlya is considered within Europe, makes it the largest glacier by area in

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ahead of

Vatnajökull Vatnajökull ( Icelandic pronunciation: , literally "Glacier of Lakes"; sometimes translated as Vatna Glacier in English) is the largest and most voluminous ice cap in Iceland, and the second largest in area in Europe after the Severny Island ice ...

at , and Austfonna at .

Glaciers

A number of

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s flow from the inner ice cap to Severny Island's coastline. Mount Kruzenshtern, the highest point of Novaya Zemlya, rises on the western edge of the Severny Island ice cap, near the head of the

Glazov Glacier The Glazov Glacier (russian: ледник Глазов; ''lednik Glazov'') is a glacier in Novaya Zemlya, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. The Glazov glacier has retreated between and in recent years. Two new islands and two headlands have been ex ...

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West coast

The following glaciers have their terminus on the coast of the

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. * Anna Glacier () * Anuchin Glacier () *

Arkhangel Bay Glacier Arkhangelsk (, ; rus, Арха́нгельск, p=ɐrˈxanɡʲɪlʲsk), also known in English as Archangel and Archangelsk, is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It lies on both banks of the Northern Dvina near ...

() * Brounov Glacier () *

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() * Bull Glacier () * Bunge Glacier () * Chayev Glacier () * Chernishev Glacier () *

() * Inostrantsev Glacier () * Karbasnikov Glacier () * Krayniy Glacier () * Lakrua Glacier () * Mack Glacier () * Nizkiy Glacier () * Pavlov Glacier () * Petersen Glacier () *

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() * Rikachev Glacier () * Severnyy Glacier () * Shirokiy Glacier () *

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() * Taisiya Glacier () * Velken Glacier () *

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() * Voyekov Glacier () * Yuzhnyy Glacier ()

East coast

The following glaciers have their terminus on the coast of the

Kara Sea The Kara Sea (russian: Ка́рское мо́ре, ''Karskoye more'') is a marginal sea, separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and from the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. ...

. * Goluboy Glacier () * Kropotkin Glacier () * Moschnyy Glacier () * Nansen Glacier () * Polisadov Glacier () *

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() * Nordenskiöld Glacier (), group of four glaciers: ** Vershinsky Glacier () ** Novopashenny Glacier (), also known as ' **

Rozhdestvensky Glacier Rozhdestvensky (masculine), Rozhdestvenskaya (feminine), or Rozhdestvenskoye (neuter) may refer to: * Rozhdestvensky (surname) (''Rozhdestvenskaya''), Russian last name * Rozhdestvenskiy (crater), a crater on the Moon * Rozhdestvensky (rural localit ...

() ** Roze Glacier ()

Other glaciers

* Lednikovoye Glaciers with their terminus in Lednikovoye LakeAGU - Lednikovoye Glaciers, Novaya Zemlya 1999-2016 retreat
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Nunataks

Gora Severny Nunatak Gora Severny or Gora Severnyy Nunatak (russian: Гора Северный Нунатак) is a nunatak in Novaya Zemlya. It is one of the very few nunataks of the Russian Federation. Administratively it falls under the Arkhangelsk Oblast. Geo ...

is a

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located in the northern section of the long ice cap not far from the western coast of the island. Further to the northeast there is another nunatak between the two outlets of the Bunge Glacier.J. J. Zeeberg, ''Climate and Glacial History of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russian Arctic''. pp. 82-84

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