© Russian ArcticVisitors to this cosmic landscape named the round rocks ‘footballs of the Gods’.
The huge stone balls up to two metres in height are found on appropriately-named Champ island above the polar circle.
Perfectly spherical they are scattered all over this northern uninhabited outpost.
We reveal the latest pictures of this remarkable sight as the final of the FIFA World Cup 2018 is played 2,842 kilometres to the south in Russian capital Moscow.
Yet the barren 374 km2 (144 sq miles) island was never inhabited and scientists are sure they are not artificial, even if they cannot agree how they were formed.
The huge stone balls up to two metres in height are found on appropriately-named Champ island above the polar circle.
Similar but smaller stone balls were found last year on Heiss island in the same archipelago.
Russian polar researcher Viktor Boyarsky said of the extraordinary phenomenon: 'The spheres are made of soft sand stone.
'You can see that many large balls fell apart into two big halves, and the largest stone on the island is breaking down year by year.'
'Sand grains harden and create a fairly dense spherical shape.'
We reveal the latest pictures of this remarkable sight as the final of the FIFA World Cup 2018 is played 2,842 kilometres to the south in Russian capital Moscow.
On Heiss island 'the spherulites look like round bullets or cannon balls. We found balls of different sizes, but none as big as at Champ island.'
As previous reports have noted every geologist seems to have their own theory.
Champ island is named after William S. Champ, a representative of American industrialist William Ziegler who funded a number of pioneering 19th century Arctic explorations.
Heiss is a Germanised version of the name Hayes. Isaac Israel Hayes, also American, was an Arctic explorer.
Comment: It's clear the scientists don't have a clue how they were formed. What we do know is that similarly large and perfectly spherical stones have been found in Costa Rica and whose origin also remains unexplained. These spheres could be the product of an unusual but still natural process or, contrary to the archeologists assumptions, they could be man made; just like the multitude of other megalithic sites around the world whose construction still stumps mainstream science.
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