komsomolets island

Komsomolets Island is home to the largest ice cap in Russia, the Academy of Sciences Ice Cap.

Off the NW shores of Komsomolets Island lies a group of islets known as Ostrova Dem'yana Bednogo .

It separates Komsomolets Island from October Revolution Island, and connects the Kara Sea in the west with the Laptev Sea in the east.

Komsomolets Island from Cape Molotov to South Eastern Cape; thence to Cape Vorochilov, Oktiabrskaya Revolutziya Island to Cape Anuchin.

It is located at the far northwestern end of the archipelago and lies slightly south of the Arctic Cape on Komsomolets Island and is significantly detached from the rest of Severnaya Zemlya relative to the proximity of the other main islands to each other.

The Kara Sea's northern limit is marked geographically by a line running from Cape Kohlsaat in Graham Bell Island, Franz Josef Land, to Cape Molotov (Arctic Cape), the northernmost point of Komsomolets Island in Severnaya Zemlya.