Anzhu Islands (Острова Анжу in Russian) are the biggest islands in a group of the New Siberian Islands. They include the Kotelny Island, Faddeyevsky Island, Novaya Sibir, and Belkovsky Island. Area: approx. 29,000 sq km. The Anzhu Islands are named after a Russian explorer Pyotr Anzhu. New Siberian Islands (Russian: Новосиби́рские острова́), an archipelago, located to the North of the East Siberian coast between the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea north of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic. ... Kotelny Island (Russian: Остров Котельный) and Faddeyevsky Island (О. Фаддеевский) formed as separate islands in the New Siberian Islands group of the eastern Russian Arctic. ... Kotelny Island (Russian: Остров Котельный) and Faddeyevsky Island (О. Фаддеевский) formed as separate islands in the New Siberian Islands group of the eastern Russian Arctic. ... New Siberia (Russian: Но́вая Сиби́рь; English transliteration: Novaya Sibir) is one of the New Siberian Islands lying between the Laptev Sea and East Siberian Sea. ... Belkovsky Island (БельковÑкий оÑтров in Russian) is an island in the New Siberian Islands archipelago in the Laptev Sea. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ...
The archipelago is divided in to three island groups: the New Siberian Islands (AnzhuIslands), the Lyakhovsky Islands, and the small De Longa Islands.
The islands of Kotel'nyy and Faddeyevsky are joined with one another via an extremely low-lying sandy plain of 6,200 km² (the tan colored area near the centre of the above image) known as Bunge Land.
The islands were formed relatively recently by retreating sea levels and are thus exposed parts of the continental shelf and consist mainly of loose sediments.
New Siberian Islands (Russian: Новосиби́рские острова́), an archipelago, located to the North of the East Siberian coast between the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea north of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic.
To the south and nearer to the Siberian mainland lie the Lyakhovskiye Islands (6,100 km²).
The surface of the islands is covered with arctic tundra vegetation and numerous lakes.
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