Do Not Panic!
Do Not Blink!
Do Not Go Back to Sleep.
Go out, in about 3 hours, and watch the solar eclipse
It is short, about 2 mins, but it will be beautiful (unless it is raining, is it raining?) and you in Gooseland will be just about the only people with a chance to see it.
The Tzar Bomb exploded there. It was the largest explosion ever made by humans (58Mt, that is 3000 more than Hiroshima). Can you check it that crater?
Here's some information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
I didn't know the Dutch name for Novaya Zemlya was Nova Zembla (or that Alexander Pope referred to a northern isle named Zembla in one of his poems).
But I bet Nabokov did!