Lake Goltsovoye

Lake Goltsovoye lies on the northern island of Novaya Zemlya, in a low corridor between Krestovaya Bay on the west and Medvezhy Bay on the east. Glaciers descend towards it from the north and supply much of its water. Surrounded by the rocky Arctic landscape of the archipelago, the lake lies between coasts facing the Barents and Kara seas, beneath a long winter of snow and ice.