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/nu saɪbˈɪriən ˈaɪləndz/ Listen

New Siberian Islands

noun

A group of islands in the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia and to the east of the Laptev Sea.

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... surface covered by a perennial drifting polar icepack that averages about 3 meters in thickness, although pressure ridges may be three times that size; clockwise drift pattern in the Beaufort Gyral Stream, but nearly straight line movement from the New Siberian Islands (Russia) to Denmark Strait (between Greenland and Iceland); the icepack is surrounded by open seas during the summer, but more than doubles in size during the winter and extends to the encircling land masses; the ...

— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

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