The discovery was made while analysing remote sensing satellite data of the Earth and has already been confirmed by a Northern Fleet expedition.
As reported by the Press Office of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Egor Parubchyshyn, a student of Polytech's IT Academy for Schoolchildren, made a geographical discovery. Alongside several other young researchers, he used satellite images to study a glacier movement in the north-western part of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. The students found out that a collapsed ice bridge had exposed a small piece of land near 5.6-hectare Severny Island.
"The youngsters discovered a small but genuine island that should be plotted on the nautical charts. Of course, this is an important geographical discovery," comments Colonel, Sergei Churkin, Head of Staff of the Northern Fleet. The expedition he led visited the island and took pictures of it.
This area of land has no official name yet. The discoverers suggest it be named after Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov.
Egor is studying space technologies at SPbPU's IT Academy for Schoolchildren. Last year, as part of the XIV International Youth Scientific Readings named after S. P. Korolev, he presented a report on examining the environmental situation in St. Petersburg using the data from the Earth's satellite sensing. Once he graduates from school, Egor intends to study biotechnology at SPbPU.
Let us remind that in January the research group of St Petersburg University revealed of having discovered the remains of an island arc at the part of the Tian Shan belonging to Kyrgyzstan. The island arc existed in the World Ocean and was around during the Cambrian, some 500 million years ago.
