Franz Josef Land

Meaning

Proper Noun

An archipelago in the Arctic Ocean in the north of Russia, north of Novaya Zemlya, east of Svalbard.

Origin

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.

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