2) Just as an aside, Severnaya Zemlya is a real place, located off the Taymyr Peninsula of Siberia, high above the Arctic Circle. It's some distance to the northeast of the more famous Novaya Zemlya archipelago, which defines the other edge of the Kara Sea, and should not be confused with the fictional site of the GoldenEye satellite control center in the James Bond film by that name (that was somewhere in the Russian interior). October Revolution Island is the largest island in the group, and actually did have a weather station on it many years ago. The Ice Palace is located within Mount Karpinsky, the highest point in the archipelago. Apart from the actual names of glaciers and whatnot, the precise details of the island's geography as presented here are, naturally, made up.

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