Etymology

Severnaya Zemlya

Today it means: An archipelago in the Arctic Ocean in the north of Russia, Krasnoyarsk krai, off Taymyr Peninsula. Full definition →

Russian Се́верная Земля́
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The story

  1. Russian · derived fromСе́верная Земля́“Northern Land”
  2. English todaySevernaya Zemlya

From Russian Се́верная Земля́ (Sévernaja Zemljá, “Northern Land”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.