![]() ![]() The exploration around Eva-Liv by the Russian Arctic employees on the “Zodiac” boat showed that the time had come to clarify the existing maps. Now it is difficult to predict what its shape will be, even in the near future. Topography and shoreline manually derived from a 1964 map by United States Army Map Service, Corps of Engineers ( File:NU-38-39-40-41.jpg ). In the era of global warming, the island's area decreases every year. English: Map of Franz Josef Land of Russia. Since then, the island has had a double name. However, in 1932, the members of the Soviet expedition on the ship "Nikolai Knipovich" found out that Liv is actually only a peninsula on the western tip of Eva. He named the discovered pieces of land after his daughter Liv and wife Eva. The Norwegian polar explorer, who first explored these places back in 1895, was confident that he had found two islands. Franz Josef Land, is an uninhabited archipelago located in the Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea and Kara Sea, constituting the northernmost part of Arkhangelsk. On an expedition cruise to Franz Josef Land you will cross the icy Barents Sea to the north to discover these remote islands. ![]() The archipelago consists of no fewer than 192 islands and is the northernmost in Europe, well above the Arctic Circle. At one time, even the famous Fridtjof Nansen made a mistake. Franz Josef Land is located high in the north of the Russian Arctic. Because of this, it is sometimes very difficult to determine where the land ends and the sea begins. Most of the islands in the Franz Josef Land are composed of perennial ice. The peninsula indicated on the map has almost completely melted, which was confirmed in 2021 by the employees at Russian Arctic National Park during an expedition to study walruses. The site is well preserved.A strait three kilometers wide separated Cape Mesyatsev from Eva-Liv Island in the Franz Josef Land Archipelago. It was the first soviet research base and the northernmost one in the world. The station was in function from 1929 to 1959. The remote Franz Josef Land (FJL) Archipelago is the most northerly land in Eurasia and its fish fauna, particularly in nearshore habitats, has been poorly studied. We may visit an abandoned polar station at Tikhaya Bay on Hooker Island. Arctic foxes are also frequent guests here. The towering cliffs at the southern part of Cape Flora are home for the huge sea birds colony. Several monuments and crosses bear witness of these historical events.Īpart from the historic sites Cape Flora is famous for its thick carpets of mosses of deep red, green and yellow. Cape Flora is also the place where the memorable encounter of Jackson and Nansen took place. The members of this expedition had made a great contribution to the exploration of the archipelago. Franz Joseph, also called Francis Joseph, (born August 18, 1830, Schloss Schnbrunn, near Vienna, Austriadied November 21, 1916, Schloss Schnbrunn), emperor of Austria (18481916) and king of Hungary (18671916), who divided his empire into the Dual Monarchy, in which Austria and Hungary coexisted as equal partners. For 3 years - from 1894 to 1897 - the base of Frederick George Jackson British Expedition was placed at the area. Here Leigh Smith and his crew had to spend 10 months after their steam yacht Eira had been crushed by ice and sunk near the coast. We hope to go on discovering the history of Arctic Exploration at Cape Flora, Northbrook Island. ![]()
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