Mezhdusharsky Island (russian: о́стров Междуша́рский) is the third largest island of the Novaya Zemlya

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, lying north of

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's mainland. It lies in the

Barents Sea The Barents Sea ( , also ; no, Barentshavet, ; russian: Баренцево море, Barentsevo More) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia and divided between Norwegian and Russian territo ...

to the west of the much larger

Yuzhny Island Yuzhny (russian: Южный остров, lit. southern island) is the southern island of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, lying north of Russia. It has an area of , which while smaller than the northern island of Severny, makes it one of the larg ...

. The area of the Mezhdusharsky Island is .pxweb2.stat.fi

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Islands of Novaya Zemlya Islands of the Barents Sea Islands of Arkhangelsk Oblast {{ArkhangelskOblast-geo-stub

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