Five islands were discovered in the Arctic by a student doing a college project. Subsequently, their existence was confirmed following an expedition of the Russian Navy.
They were brought to the surface as a result of melting glaciers, caused by global warming.
The five islands are between 900 and 54,500 square meters in size and are located in Vize Bay, northeast of Novaya Zemlya, which separates the Barents and Kara Seas from the Arctic Ocean, according to a statement from the Russian Defense Ministry, quoted by The Telegraph .
To mark this event, the team that made the expedition built a monument in the area, which contains a plaque on which are written the details of this discovery, but also a CD with photos taken on this occasion.
The first to notice the islands was Marina Migunova, who in 2016 was a student. She was analyzing satellite images for a course at the Naval University when she made the discovery. Initially, the islands were under the Nansen Glacier, also known as Vylka, which did not make them visible until parts of it began to melt, the Ministry of Defense notes.
