Abstract
A brief introduction to the geographic place names of Franz Josef Land. Franz Josef Land is located in the western Arctic though for much of the 20th Century it was closed behind the Iron Curtain. Prior to that, there were a series of Western expeditions between the ‘official’ discovery in 1873 and the departure of the American Fiala group in 1905. From these expeditions, the islands are heavily connected to the history of the search for the North Pole.
Highlights
A brief introduction to the geographic place names of Franz Josef Land
Franz Josef Land is located in the western Arctic though for much of the 20th Century it was closed behind the Iron Curtain
The islands are heavily connected to the history of the search for the North Pole
Summary
Essen Bay, named by Leigh Smith, is described as being named after the town of Esssen in Germany. It could be named from a family in Sweden. A lot of glaciers are not included in the Russian place names book. They are all tied to Soviet names That makes it hard if you’re not Russian speaking and know the Russian academic science because most of them are tied to Russian scientific men and sometimes women, or pilots and captains aboard ships doing expeditions up in the Arctic, and not necessarily Franz Josef Land. We can do something pre-Russian or Soviet Union, for instance, place name book
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