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    History of Franz Josef Land

    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 the Norwegian sealing vessel Spidsbergen captained by Nils Fredrik Rønnbeck. However, the discovery was never announced and the existence of the territory only came to public notice following the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition of 1872, which named the archipelago in honor of Franz Joseph I of Austria. Benjamin Leigh Smith led the next expedition in 1880, which continued the work of the first expeditions in investigating the southern and central parts of the archipelago. Concurrent expeditions followed in 1896, Nansen's Fram expedition and the Jackson–Harmsworth Expedition, which met by accident. These two journeys explored the northern area and the flanks of Franz Josef Land. The next series of expeditions used the archipelago as a base for attempts to reach the North Pole. Wikipedia

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    Map of Franz Josef Land. 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 the Norwegian sealing vessel Spidsbergen captained by Nils Fredrik Rønnbeck.However, the discovery was never announced and the existence of the territory only came to public notice following the Austro-Hungarian North ...
  3. en.wikipedia.org

    Franz Josef Land [a] (Russian: Земля́ Фра́нца-Ио́сифа, romanized: Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa) is a Russian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.It is inhabited only by military personnel. [1] It constitutes the northernmost part of Arkhangelsk Oblast and consists of 192 islands, which cover an area of 16,134 square kilometers (6,229 sq mi), stretching 375 kilometers (233 mi) from ...
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  5. britannica.com

    Franz Josef Land, archipelago of 191 islands in the northeastern Barents Sea, the northernmost territory of Russia. It falls administratively into Arkhangelsk oblast (province). The islands, with a land area of 6,229 square miles (16,134 square km), consist of three groups. The easternmost includes
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  6. voelkerrechtsblog.org

    Jul 14, 2023The 'seizure' of Franz-Josef-Land, whether it was actually connected to property claims or not, is part of a history of plundering that was based on a hunger for power and a desire for fame, and which equipped and legitimized itself with science. For the men of the historical expedition, things turned out just fine, with only one death to ...
  7. aurora-expeditions.com

    Jan 16, 2025Despite this, Franz Josef Land has seen its fair share of history over the centuries and has been an important strategic point for conflict during war time. So, before you hop onto the Franz Josef Land Explorer, let the team at Aurora Expeditions share a few of the secret historic moments that have shaped the archipelago over time.
  8. polarresearch.at

    Feb 22, 2024The original of his Franz Josef Land map is kept in the Austrian National Library. Payer's book about the expedition was published in 1874 and became a bestseller in the monarchy. Payer had made many drawings and sketches, either from the location of the Tegetthoff or during the sledge voyages, which provided the interested public with a more ...
  9. hiddeneurope.eu

    The answer will come easily to those readers of hidden europe who are conversant with the history of polar exploration. It was 140 years ago this year that an Austro- Hungarian expedition stumbled entirely by chance on Franz Josef Land, the Arctic archipelago which is now Russian territory.
  10. poseidonexpeditions.com

    The history of man is hung on a timeline of exploration, and in 1873, a remote and forbidding archipelago that would soon be called Franz Joseph Land was next. In the summer of 1872, Austro-Hungarian army lieutenants Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht got stuck in sea ice north of Novaya Zemlya while trying to find a northern passage across ...
  11. circaproject.com

    Franz Josef was the emperor of Austria and the King of Hungary. He had come to the throne in 1848 (in the wake of calls for revolution and reform across Europe) and had continued to lead the empire across the 19th century, including through the discovery of what would be named Franz Josef Land. Indeed, Franz Josef remained monarch until his ...
  12. cambridge.org

    three chapters), is devoted to the history of 'Franz Josef Land. The archipelago was one o thf e last explored areas of the northern hemisphere, arguably being first sighted from the seale Spidsbergenr in 1865, when it was named R0nnbeck Land after the ship's captain (Horn 1930: 11). However, it was not until the Austro-Hungarian exploring
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