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Franz Josef Land
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English
Alternative forms
en Franz Joseph Land Francis Joseph's Land
Etymology
The first reported finding was in the 1873 Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition led by Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht, who named the area after Emperor Franz Joseph I.
Proper noun
Franz Josef Land
An archipelago in the Arctic Ocean in the north of Russia, north of Novaya Zemlya, east of Svalbard.
Translations
archipelago in Russia
Armenian: hy Ֆրանց Յոսիֆի երկիր
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 法蘭士約瑟夫地 Fǎlánshì-Yuēsèfū Dì
Danish: da Franz Josefs Land
Estonian: et Franz Josephi maa
Finnish: fi Frans Joosefin maa
French: fr terre François-Joseph f
German: de Franz-Josef-Land n
Pannonian Rusyn: rsk Жем Франц Йозефа f
Russian: ru Земля́ Фра́нца-Ио́сифа f
Spanish: es Tierra de Francisco José f
Swedish: sv Frans Josefs land n
See also
en Novaya Zemlya
en Kara Sea
en Arctic Ocean
en eponyms
en Islands Places in Russia