. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. NOVAYA ZEMLYA. 359 frequented by the Russian fishers, its existence was first revealed to the West after Willoughby's voyage in 1553. It was again visited in 155G by Stephen Burrough, who also circumnavigated Waigatch by the two Straits of Yugor and Kara, separating it from Russia and the southern extremity of Novaya Zemlya. Barents followed, and perished here during the hard winter of 1597, and in ISTI the Norwegian Carlsen discovered in hit. 76'^ 7', near the north-east end of the northern island, the house where Barents and Heemskerk had winter
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. NOVAYA ZEMLYA. 359 frequented by the Russian fishers, its existence was first revealed to the West after Willoughby's voyage in 1553. It was again visited in 155G by Stephen Burrough, who also circumnavigated Waigatch by the two Straits of Yugor and Kara, separating it from Russia and the southern extremity of Novaya Zemlya. Barents followed, and perished here during the hard winter of 1597, and in ISTI the Norwegian Carlsen discovered in hit. 76'^ 7', near the north-east end of the northern island, the house where Barents and Heemskerk had wintered two hundred and seventy-four years previously. All the objects found in it were collected and brought to Holland, and the Amsterdam Geographical Society now proposes to raise a monument on a neighbouring headland in honour of the famous navigator. Novaya Zemlya may, on the whole, be considered as a continuation of the Ural range, with which it is connected by "Waigatch and the Pae Khoï chain of like Fig. 189.—Waigatch Island and Kara and Yugor Straits. Scale 1 : :), m Under iJepth in Falhoms. 55 to 125. 125 to 250. Over 250. ' 60 Miles. geological formation. The connection is interrupted, without being destroyed, by the two intervening straits, beyond which the system traverses the entire length of Novaya Zemlya, describing an arc 540 miles long, with its convex side turned towards Spitzbergen. The island is divided into two unequal parts by the Matochkin Shar, a channel some 30 feet deep, skirted by the highest elevations in the range. Like the Urals themselves, these heights slope gently westwards, and abruptly towards the east, a disposition maintained also by the bed of the sea, which shoals gradually on the west and dips on the east side, where the line of 110 fathoms runs close to the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of
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