in the east.

Severnaya Zemlya was first discovered in 1913 and first charted in 1930–1932, making it the last sizeable archipelago on Earth to be discovered and mapped. Administratively, the islands form part of Russia's Krasnoyarsk Krai. In Soviet times there were a number of research stations in different locations, but currently there are no human inhabitants in Severnaya Zemlya,