Greely Island

Greely Island

Location of the Zichy Land subgroup of the Franz Josef Archipelago. Greely Island is located towards its eastern side.

Geography
Location Arctic
Coordinates 81°00′16″N 58°17′52″E / 81.0044°N 58.2978°E / 81.0044; 58.2978
Archipelago Franz Josef Archipelago
Area 127 km2 (49 sq mi)
Administration
Demographics
Population 0

Greely Island (Russian: Остров Грили; Ostrov Grili) is an island in Franz Josef Land, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.[1]

This island was named after American Arctic explorer Adolphus Greely.

Georaphy

Greely Island's area is 127 km2 (49 sq mi) and it is almost completely glacierized.[2]

Greely Island is part of the Zichy Land subgroup of the Franz Josef Archipelago. It is separated from Ziegler Island by a narrow sound.

Adjacent Islands

Brosch Island

Ostrov Brosh (Остров Брош), also known as Kuna Island (Kuhn Island), is a large island with unglacierized shores lying off Greely Island's northern coastline. Maximum height 228 m (748 ft). This island was named after Gustav Brosch, a naval lieutenant from Bohemia in the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition. Brosch Island also appears as "Ostrov Kuna" or "Ostrov Kun" in some maps. It was so renamed by the American Ziegler-Fiala Polar Expedition, perhaps not knowing that it had been named previously by the Austro-Hungarians, in a similar manner as La Ronciere Island.

Kane Island

Ostrov Keyna (Остров Кейна), is another large partly unglacierized island lying off Greely Island's northeastern shore, southeast of Brosch Island and separated from it by a 2 km (1.2 mi) narrow sound. Maximum height 282 m (925 ft). Kane Island was named after American Arctic explorer Dr. Elisha Kent Kane.

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Various islands of Franz Josef Land

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