Franz Josef Land (Russian: Земля́ Фра́нца-Ио́сифа, romanized: Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa) is a Russian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. It is inhabited only...
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Alexandra Land (Russian: Земля Александры, romanized: Zemlya Aleksandry) is a large island located in Franz Josef Land, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Not...
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Al'banova) – Severnaya Zemlya Chernyshev Ice Cap (Lednik Chernysheva) – Franz Josef Land De Long East Glacier – Bennett Island. De Long Islands De Long West...
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Franz Josef Land, an uninhabited archipelago located in the Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea, and Kara Sea, may have been discovered by the 1865 expedition of...
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Fusiliers Field Marshal of the British Army, 1 September 1903 – 1914 Franz Josef Land in the Russian Arctic was named in his honour in 1873 by the Austro-Hungarian...
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The Geography of Franz Josef Land refers to an island group belonging to Arkhangelsk Oblast of Russia. It is situated in the Barents Sea of the Arctic...
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158 sq mi) and some of the more significant minor islands. Aleksandry, Franz Josef Land Atlasov Island, Kuril Islands Ayon Belkovsky, New Siberian Islands...
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smaller magmatic provinces. Svalbard, Franz Josef Land, Sverdrup Basin, Amerasian Basin, and northern Greenland (Peary Land) are some of the larger divisions...
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(Russian: Остров Белл) is a small island in the south-west of the Franz Josef Land archipelago in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. The island was named by...
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undertook five major scientific expeditions to Svalbard, Jan Mayen, and Franz Josef Land. He brought back specimens for the British Museum and Royal Botanic...
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Zemlya Georga (redirect from Prinz Georg Land)
Georga, or Prince George Land (Russian: Земля Георга; Zemlya Georga, "George Land"), is the largest island in Franz Josef Land, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russian...
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The Franz Josef Glacier (Māori: Kā Roimata o Hine Hukatere; officially Franz Josef Glacier / Kā Roimata o Hine Hukatere) is a 12-kilometre-long (7.5 mi)...
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Island (Russian: о́стров На́нсена; Ostrov Nansena) is an island in Franz Josef Land, Russia. The island is partly glaciated and its area is 164 km2 (63 sq mi)...
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Middendorff Glacier (Lednik Middendorfa) - Franz Josef Land Molochnyy Glacier (Lednik Molochnyy) - Franz Josef Land Molotov Glacier (Lednik Molotova) - Severnaya...
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Russian Arctic National Park (category Franz Josef Land)
Novaya Zemlya (Severny Island), and Franz Josef Land. After expansion in 2016, approximately 74,000 km2, 16,000 km2 in land area and 58,000 km2 in sea area...
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the southwestern area of Franz Josef Land 1881–1882: Benjamin Leigh Smith's final expedition is shipwrecked in Franz Josef Land 1881–1884: Lady Franklin...
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Norwegian Sea to the west, the archipelagos of Svalbard to the northwest, Franz Josef Land to the northeast and Novaya Zemlya to the east. The islands of Novaya...
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Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830–1916) was Emperor of Austria, Apostolic King of Hungary and King of Bohemia. Franz Josef or Franz Joseph may also refer...
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Nansen's Fram expedition (category History of Franz Josef Land)
86°13.6′N before a long retreat over ice and water to reach safety in Franz Josef Land. Meanwhile, Fram continued to drift westward, finally emerging in the...
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Rudolf Island (redirect from Rudolf Land)
Rudolf Land, Crown Prince Rudolf Land, Prince Rudolf Island or Rudolf Island (Russian: Остров Рудольфа) is the northernmost island of the Franz Josef Archipelago...
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geographically by a line running from Cape Kohlsaat in Graham Bell Island, Franz Josef Land, to Cape Molotov (Arctic Cape), the northernmost point of Komsomolets...
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Vesle Tavleøya Waldenøya Hinnoya Russian Arctic islands Dikson Island Franz Josef Land Bell Island Graham Bell Island Hooker Island Jackson Island Northbrook...
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subject of Russia (an oblast). It includes the Arctic archipelagos of Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya, as well as the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea...
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Cape Fligely (category Headlands of Franz Josef Land)
Mys Fligeli) is located on the northern shores of Rudolf Island and Franz Josef Land in the Russian Federation, and is the northernmost point of Russia...
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a terrestrial ecoregion that covers the island groups of Svalbard, Franz Josef Land, Severny Island and Severnaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean, above 75...
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Graham Bell Island (category Islands of Franz Josef Land)
Wilczek Land, separated from it by a narrow sound known as Morgan Sound (Пролив Моргана; Proliv Morgana). It is also the easternmost island of Franz Josef Land...
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around Longyearbyen. The waters around the marine mammal sanctuary of Franz Josef Land is possibly functioning as the most important habitat for this population...
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Walter Wellman (section Franz Josef Land)
(2016). The greatest show in the Arctic: the American exploration of Franz Josef Land, 1898-1905. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-5222-6. P...
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60.5. At 2,000 km2 (770 sq mi) it is the second-largest island in Franz Josef Land, in Arctic Russia. This island should not be confused with the small...
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