Franz Josef Land is well known for specific lines of its rocks. The image is printed on stickers, T-shirts and other souvenirs that tourists can buy at the national park.

Russia’s Franz Josef Land sails up as the new highlight destination. Until recently, Russian-flagged vessels were the only ones allowed to sail with passengers to the mysterious fairy-tale ...

The Nagurskoye airbase in the Franz Josef Land archipelago was built in the 1950s as a weather station and communications outpost but is now a huge military base for Russia.

Franz Josef Land comprises 192 islands, most of them built of Mesozoic sediments covered with a capping of columnar basalt, and so flat across the top that, viewed without ice (as they ...

The Franz Josef Land Archipelago attracts many tourists, visiting the Arctic, and it may become a good Russian alternative to the Spitsbergen Archipelago, the International Union of Arctic and Far ...

He also wants his national park to expand and include the Victoria Island, the 10.8 square kilometers piece of land located between Franz Josef Land and Svalbard, the Ministry of Natural Resources ...

Franz-Josef-Land News: Cruise Ship Transits The Northeast Passage, Russia Ramps Up Its Military Presence In The Arctic, North Pole: The Latest Tourist Trap, ...

Most of Franz Josef Land is underneath glaciers and from October to February it experiences a 128-day-long polar night. Temperatures can reach as low as -40 degrees during the depths of winter.

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 ...

This article was originally published with the title “Franz-Josef Land” inSA Supplements Vol. 15 No. 378supp(March 1883), p. 6037doi:10.1038/scientificamerican03311883-6037csupp ...