Yuzhny

Yuzhny is the southern island of Novaya Zemlya, a long Arctic archipelago between the Barents and Kara seas. Its coasts and tundra were known to Russian hunters and sailors who travelled north for fish and marine animals. Dutch expeditions seeking a northeastern passage reached Novaya Zemlya in the 1590s; in 1596 Willem Barentsz and his crew were trapped by ice on the northern island and spent the winter there. The islands lay on a hazardous route through Arctic waters.