Franz Josef Land

American  

[land, lahnt] / lænd, lɑnt /

noun

1. an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, E of Spitzbergen and N of Novaya Zemlya: belongs to the Russian Federation.

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Franz Josef Land British  

/ frants ˈjoːzɛf /

noun

1. Russian name: Zemlya Frantsa Iosifa.  an archipelago of over 100 islands in the Arctic Ocean, administratively part of Russia. Area: about 21 000 sq km (8000 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

Franz Josef Land, a jumble of glacier-covered islands in the Arctic Ocean named after an Austro-Hungarian emperor, was until a few years ago mostly uninhabited, home to polar bears, walruses, sea birds and little else.

From New York Times • May 22, 2021

This week’s drills were conducted around Alexandra Land, an island that is part of the Franz Josef Land archipelago where the military has recently built a base.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 26, 2021

Within two days, we had reached Franz Josef Land, an archipelago of 192 islands that is the most northerly land in Eurasia — at its northernmost point, a mere 560 miles from the Pole.

From Washington Post • Sep. 4, 2018

Snow fills an old polar station at Tikhaya Bay in Franz Josef Land, a Russian archipelago.

From National Geographic • Oct. 31, 2015

It thus seems as though Franz Josef Land were of a comparatively old formation.

From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Nansen, Fridtjof