Franz Josef Land

[land, lahnt]

noun

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

Franz Josef Land

/ 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)

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.

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Balabeg A. Eminov is the commander of the anti-ship battery and other facilities on Franz Josef Land, called the Trefoil Base.

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Russia now has a military base at the top of the world – on the remote archipelago of Franz Josef Land.

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Now Franz Josef Land is home to a Russian military base and the source of added tension in relations with the West.

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As competition begins to heat up, our visit to Franz Josef Land was a chance for Russia to flex some muscle and send a message: that its ambitions for the Arctic are great and growing and they are interests it's ready to defend.

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