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Geography of Franz Josef Land
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, north of Novaya Zemlya and east of Svalbard. At latitudes between 80.0° and 81.9° north, it is the most northerly group of islands associated with Eurasia. The extreme northernmost point is Cape Fligely on Rudolf Island. The archipelago consists of 191 ice-covered islands with a total area of . It is currently uninhabited. The archipelago is only from the North Pole, and the northernmost islands are closer to the Pole than any other land except for Canada's Ellesmere Island and Greenland. The largest island is Zemlya Georga (George Land) which measures from end to end. The highest point in the archipelago is on Ostrov Viner-Neyshtadt (Wiener Neustadt Island) which reaches above sea level. The central cluster of large islands in the midst of the archipelago forms a compact whole, known as Zichy Land, where islands are separated from each other by very narrow sounds that are frozen most of the year.
During the period 1926 and 1932 Franz Josef Land also known in Russian as ''Zemlya Franca Josepha'' became a part of the Soviet Union and is included under the Arkhangelsk Oblast. In 1994, it was declared the Sakasnik Nature Reserve covering an area of including area of the sea surrounding the land but with restricted entry only on special permit which is not given easily; out of this area, area around the military base of Nagurskoye on the Alexandra Land is totally out of bounds.
==Landforms==
The group of islands of the archipelago is located at the nearest about from the North Pole, much beyond the Polar Circle. The group’s 191 islands measure . They extend over a length of in the north-south direction and in the east-west direction. There are flat mountains in the range of above sea level. The general lie of the land is in the elevation range between in the north and in the south with Wilczek Land forming the highest land mass at an elevation of . The islands are covered with glaciers to the extent of 85%, with no land breaks, and the land area of all the islands is only about 20%, with a coastline measuring . There are multiple icebergs, with limited length of less than and some of them are similar to the Antarctic tabular iceberg. Air borne radar measurements have recorded an ice layer of in Graham Bell and Hall Islands; the thick ice cover on the islands is a phenomenon of the last 1000 years and as result the reindeer population has not survived in these islands. Moving down to the coastal region, where the ice disappears, many lakes and ponds are seen. But as this area is very limited only small streams are noted and the largest one is only on the George Prince Island.
Franz Josef Land consists of 191 ice-covered islands with a total area of about ; the area varying with the fluctuation of glaciers during rising or receding stages. Its two largest islands are Alexander and Prince George. The main geographic subgroups in Franz Joseph Land (also called Land of the Kaiser Franz Joseph) are the northernmost archipelago of Eurasia and comprise Zemlya Zichy (Zichy Land), a large and compact glaciarized island cluster located in the middle of the archipelago containing ten large islands and Belaya Zemlya, a group of three islands in the northeast named Hvidtenland ("White Land") by Fridtjof Nansen, and many of them located on the located on both sides of the wide strait, which is called the Payer Austrian channel.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Archipelago ledyanыh kupolov (Zemlya Franz-Joseph) )〕 Rudolph Island is the nearest to the North Pole. The largest island, Zemlya Georga (George Land) measures from end to end. The highest point in the archipelago is on Ostrov Viner-Neyshtadt (Wiener Neustadt Island) which reaches above sea level.
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