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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An archipelago of northeast Russia in the Arctic Ocean between the Laptev and East Siberian Seas. Discovered in the 1770s, they are used for meteorological and other scientific stations.
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- proper noun An
archipelago in theArctic Ocean in the north ofRussia , in theEast Siberian Sea .
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- 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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Examples
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Something seems to be going on deep beneath the New Siberian Islands that is drawing the pole toward them.
Magnetic North Is on the Move. Time to Panic? Matt Ridley 2011
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Four of the five models also project open water to the east and north of the New Siberian Islands in September.
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The central submarine ridge, the Lomonosov Ridge, runs 1,770 kilometers from Ellesmere Island to the New Siberian Islands, a distance equivalent to that separating Toronto from Halifax!
Arctic Ocean 2008
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This shelf is very shallow, with an average depth of only 100 meters, and from it arises many islands including Wrangel Island, Novaya Zemlya, and the New Siberian Islands.
Arctic Ocean 2008
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The Lomonosov Ridge shoots off to the pole from close to the New Siberian Islands, in the Laptev Sea, above Yakutia.
The Arctic Oil Rush Shoumatoff, Alex 2008
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It is topographically defined by the New Siberian Islands in the East, and the Northern Land islands in the West.
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The New Siberian Islands constitute a topographical boundary with the Laptev Sea LME to the west.
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Adam Rifkin: In February of 2005, I was crab fishing off the coast of the New Siberian Islands when our team made a most unusual discovery.
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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 landmasses; the ocean floor is about 50\% continental shelf (highest percentage of any ocean) with the remainder a central basin interrupted by three submarine ridges
The 1999 CIA Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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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 landmasses; the ocean floor is about 50\% continental shelf (highest percentage of any ocean) with the remainder a central basin interrupted by three submarine ridges
The 2004 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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