A peninsula on an island Nansen named for his wife and daughter has melted away
What appeared to be a peninsula was a glacier — and it's melted away, said officials with the Russian Arctic National Park.
December 10, 2021
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Employees of the Russian Arctic National Park discovered that the peninsula on the northern edge of Eva-Liv island in Franz Josef Land wasn’t a peninsula at all, but a glacier stretching into the sea — a glacier that now has melted.
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