North Pole
The North Pole is the northernmost point on the surface of the Earth, where the Earth's axis of
rotation intersects the Earth's surface. There are no four corners of the World there:
the South is all around you and any wind is southern.
Franz Josef Land
Franz Josef Land Archipelago is the closest land to the North Pole in the Eastern Hemisphere
(about 540 miles to the North Pole from its utmost Northern point).
Novaya Zemlya (New Land)
Novaya Zemlya is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean in the north of Russia, between the Barents Sea and
the Kara Sea. It is located very close to the mainland.
Spitsbergen
The Spitzbergen Archipelago, Norwegian Svalbard is a land mutually owned by Russia and Norway,
found in the Arctic Ocean to the north of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
Severnaya Zemlya (Northern Land)
Severnaya Zemlya is an archipelago located in the Russian part of the Arctic Ocean,
between the Kara and Laptev Seas.
