New Siberia, a group of uninhabited islands in the Arctic Ocean, lying off the coast of Siberia between the mouth of the Lena and the mouth of the Indigirka. The principal are Kotelnoi (the largest), Liakhov, Fadeyeff, and New Siberia. The coasts are rocky, and ice-bound all the year round. The soil contains immense quantities of fossil ivory, of the mammoth, &c. See Petermann's Mittelungen (1888).
New Siberia
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 470
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