Ravaging wildfires are burning further north in the Russian Arctic than had previously been recorded from space.

Images captured by a satellite have shown an out-of-control inferno just 30 miles from the Arctic Ocean in the Yakutia region.

It comes in a summer of unprecedented heat in northern latitudes in Siberia with locals sunbathing, with one extraordinary temperature measurement reading 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit in the 'pole of cold' Verkhoyansk in the last week.

The European Union's Earth Observation Programme spotted the tundra ablaze at a latitude of 72.723° N in the diamond-rich Yakutia region, also called the Sakha Republic, the coldest permanently inhabited region on the planet.

The image shows the burning Anabar district, southwest of the Olenyok River estuary into the Laptev Sea.

The wildfire was photographed by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite and is believed to be the 'northernmost in recent years within the Arctic Circle'.

'While fires are common at this time of year, record temperatures and strong winds are making the situation particularly worrying,' said a statement from the programme.