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Karl Alexander Island ((ロシア語:Остров Карла-Александра)), also known as Zemlya Karla-Alexandra (Земля Карла Александра), is an island in Franz Josef Land, Russia. ==Location== Its latitude is 81° 28' N and its longitude 57° 50' E. Karl Alexander Island's length is and its maximum width is . Its area is , but very little of it is ice-free. The highest point on the island is . This island is part of the Zemlya Zichy subgroup of the Franz Joseph Archipelago. It is separated from Rainer Island in the east by a narrow sound and from Jackson Island in the South by a wide sound. Karl Alexander Island was named by the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition after one of the noblemen that financed the venture, Austro-Hungarian aristocrat Alfred Wilhelm Karl Alexander Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten (born 25 May 1851 in Münster, died 17 January 1919 in Vienna). This island should not be confused with Alexandra Land, also in the Franz Josef Archipelago. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Karl-Alexander Island」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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