Specifically, on which island is the Franz Josef Glacier?
"Franz Josef, New Zealand Franz Josef / Waiau is a small town in the West Coast region of the South Island of New Zealand. Whataroa is to the north-east, and the township of Fox Glacier is to the south-west. State Highway 6 runs through the town. The Waiho River runs from the Franz Josef Glacier to the south, through the town, and into the Tasman Sea to the north-west. The population was 330 in the 2006 census, an increase of 9 from 2001. The town is named after the Franz Josef Glacier – itself named by Julius von Haast in"
"Nansen Island (Franz Josef Land) Nansen Island (; ""Ostrov Nansena"") is an island in Franz Josef Land, Russia. The island is partly glaciated and its area is . The highest point of the island is . Nansen Island is named in the honor and memory of Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen, who explored and charted the Franz Josef Archipelago in 1896. The island is located in the center of a cluster of islands of similar size separated from each other by narrow sounds. The channel to the southwest of the subgroup is Proliv Allen-Yung (), the one at the southeast is"
"is known as Proliv Roberta Piliya. Koetlitz Island was named in honor of the geologist of the 1894-1897 Jackson-Harmsworth Arctic Expedition to the Franz Josef Archipelago, Dr. Reginald Koetlitz. Nansen Island (Franz Josef Land) Nansen Island (; ""Ostrov Nansena"") is an island in Franz Josef Land, Russia. The island is partly glaciated and its area is . The highest point of the island is . Nansen Island is named in the honor and memory of Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen, who explored and charted the Franz Josef Archipelago in 1896. The island is located in the center of a cluster of"
"Austro-Hungarian Arctic expedition. Wiener Neustadt Island Wiener Neustadt Island (, ""Ostrov Viner-Neyshtadt"", also Остров Винер-Нойштадт, ""Ostrov Viner-Noyshtadt"") is an island in Franz Josef Land, Russian Federation. Wiener Neustadt Island's area is 237 km² and it is almost completely glacierized. The highest point of this island, Peak Parnass, is 620 m, the highest in Franz Josef Land. Wiener Neustadt Island is part of the Zichy Land subgroup of the Franz Josef Archipelago. It is separated from Ziegler Island and Salisbury Island by the narrow Collinson Sound (Proliv Kollinsona). This island was named after Wiener Neustadt, a town located south of Vienna,"
"area of about ; the area varying with the fluctuation of glaciers during rising or receding stages. Its two largest islands are Alexander and Prince George. The main geographic subgroups in Franz Joseph Land (also called Land of the Kaiser Franz Joseph) are the northernmost archipelago of Eurasia and comprise Zemlya Zichy (Zichy Land), a large and compact glaciarized island cluster located in the middle of the archipelago containing ten large islands and Belaya Zemlya, a group of three islands in the northeast named Hvidtenland (""White Land"") by Fridtjof Nansen, and many of them located on the located on both"
"Geography of Franz Josef Land The Geography of Franz Josef Land refers to an island group belonging to Arkhangelsk Oblast of Russia. It is situated in the Barents Sea of the Arctic, north of Novaya Zemlya and east of Svalbard. At latitudes between 80.0° and 81.9° north, it is the most northerly group of islands associated with Eurasia. The extreme northernmost point is Cape Fligely on Rudolf Island. The archipelago consists of 191 ice-covered islands with a total area of . It is currently uninhabited. The archipelago is only from the North Pole, and the northernmost islands are closer to"
"Franz Josef Land Franz Josef Land, Franz Joseph Land or Francis Joseph's Land () is a Russian archipelago, inhabited only by military personnel, located in the Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea and Kara Sea, constituting the northernmost part of Arkhangelsk Oblast. It consists of 191 islands, which cover an area of , stretching from east to west and from north to south. The islands are categorized in three groups, a western, central and eastern, separated by the British Channel and the Austrian Strait. The central group is further divided into a northern and southern section by the Markham Strait. The largest"
"Very close to Payer Island, off its easternmost point, lie some small islands: Payer Island Payer Island () is an island in Franz Josef Land, Russia. This island was named after Julius Johannes Ludovicus von Payer an Austro-Hungarian arctic explorer and an Arctic landscape artist, one of the leaders of the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition. Payer Island is part of the Zichy Land subgroup of the Franz Josef Archipelago. Its area is 151 km² and it lies to the SE of Jackson Island. The headland at the northern end is ""Mys Nordik"". The center of the island is covered by"
"in Franz Josef Land. ""Ostrov Blissa"" (Остров Блисса), Bliss Island lies south of Pritchet Island. Partly unglacierized. ""Ostrov Dzheffersona"" (Остров Джефферсона), Jefferson Island is a much smaller island lying off Nansen Island's southwestern shore. This island was named in honor of Thomas Jefferson by the 1901 Baldwin-Ziegler North Pole Expedition. ""Ostrov Ketlitsa"" (Остров Кётлица), Koetlitz Island is a long island which lies off the northwestern tip of Nansen island. Glacierized, maximum height . The cape at its northern end is known as Mys Polyarnogo Siyaniya and its southernmost came is Mys Giuys. The channel separating this island from Nansen island"
"his death. Hine Hukatere was broken-hearted and her many, many tears flowed down the mountain and froze to form the glacier. Following the passage of the Ngai Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998, the name of the glacier was officially altered to Franz Josef Glacier / Kā Roimata o Hine Hukatere. Franz Josef Glacier is currently long and terminates from the Tasman Sea. Fed by a large snowfield at high altitude, it exhibits a cyclic pattern of advance and retreat, driven by differences between the volume of meltwater at the foot of the glacier and volume of snowfall feeding the névé."
"Payer Island Payer Island () is an island in Franz Josef Land, Russia. This island was named after Julius Johannes Ludovicus von Payer an Austro-Hungarian arctic explorer and an Arctic landscape artist, one of the leaders of the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition. Payer Island is part of the Zichy Land subgroup of the Franz Josef Archipelago. Its area is 151 km² and it lies to the SE of Jackson Island. The headland at the northern end is ""Mys Nordik"". The center of the island is covered by an ice dome named ""Kupol Frolova"" (Купол Фролова). Its highest point reaches ."
"per year). Though most of the land is covered by glacial ice, it does have outcrops covered with moss. The northeastern part of the archipelago is locked in pack ice most of the year round; however the ice sometimes retreats north past the islands in summer (September). Bibliography Geography of Franz Josef Land The Geography of Franz Josef Land refers to an island group belonging to Arkhangelsk Oblast of Russia. It is situated in the Barents Sea of the Arctic, north of Novaya Zemlya and east of Svalbard. At latitudes between 80.0° and 81.9° north, it is the most northerly"
"Franc Jozeph Island Franz Joseph Island (or ""Franz Josef"", ""Franc Jozeph"", etc.) () is an island located at the mouth of the Buna River in Albania. The island is made up of rich alluvial soil and becomes a peninsula depending on the size of the river's flow. This island is an important nesting ground for many seabirds, especially the family Ardeidae. The island is low ground covered with a sandy seashore and dominated by alder trees. The trees are 75 years of age and reach a height of . The island receives few foreign tourists and attracts for its quietness."
"is . The north central group lies to the north of the Markham sound and Austrian Strait. It includes Rudolf island to the north, the Zichy Land cluster of islands, and Heiss and Komsomol islands to the southeast. Cape Fligely on Rudolf Island at 81°52' N is the extreme northernmost point of Franz Josef Land. Lieutenant Julius von Payer, an officer of the Austro-Hungarian army, cartographer, and mountaineer, placed an Austrian flag and primitive shelter at Cape Fligely during an expedition in 1874. The Baldwin Xiegler expedition arrived in 1902 and established a depot, and the Fiala-Ziegeler expedition set up"
"Rudolf Island Prince Rudolf Land, Crown Prince Rudolf Land, Prince Rudolf Island or Rudolf Island () is the northernmost island of the Franz Josef Archipelago, Russia and is home to the northernmost point in Russia. Because of its location, the island has served as a staging area for numerous polar expeditions. Rudolf Island is almost completely glaciated. It is located very close to the limit of permanent Polar ice. Its highest point is . The Middendorff Glacier ""(Lednik Middendorfa)"" covers the southeastern part of the island. Cape Fligely, located on Rudolf Island's northern shore, is the northernmost point of Europe"
"Wiener Neustadt Island Wiener Neustadt Island (, ""Ostrov Viner-Neyshtadt"", also Остров Винер-Нойштадт, ""Ostrov Viner-Noyshtadt"") is an island in Franz Josef Land, Russian Federation. Wiener Neustadt Island's area is 237 km² and it is almost completely glacierized. The highest point of this island, Peak Parnass, is 620 m, the highest in Franz Josef Land. Wiener Neustadt Island is part of the Zichy Land subgroup of the Franz Josef Archipelago. It is separated from Ziegler Island and Salisbury Island by the narrow Collinson Sound (Proliv Kollinsona). This island was named after Wiener Neustadt, a town located south of Vienna, by the Payer-Weyprecht"
"are similar to the Antarctic tabular iceberg. Air borne radar measurements have recorded an ice layer of in Graham Bell and Hall Islands; the thick ice cover on the islands is a phenomenon of the last 1000 years and as result the reindeer population has not survived in these islands. Moving down to the coastal region, where the ice disappears, many lakes and ponds are seen. But as this area is very limited only small streams are noted and the largest one is only on the George Prince Island. Franz Josef Land consists of 191 ice-covered islands with a total"
"allowed to be on an island, then it still is not the North Cape. It would be Cape Fligely on Rudolf Island, Franz Josef Land in Russia, which is located much further north at 81° 48′ 24″ N. If Franz Josef Land is not considered to be in Europe, then Europe's northernmost point is the northern point of the island of Rossøya, an islet in Svalbard, north of Spitsbergen at 80° 49′ 44.41″ N. This coastal municipality is like many others in Finnmark, home of large seabird colonies. The island group known as Gjesværstappan is one of the better known"
"La Ronciere Island La Ronciere Island (, also known as Ronser Island, is an island in Franz Josef Land, Russia. This island was named by the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition after Captain La Ronciere Le Noury, a French courier for Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph. On some maps La Ronciere Island appears as ""Whitney Island"", after American Arctic financier William Collins Whitney. This name was given by the American explorer Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, but the Austro-Hungarian explorers who discovered Franz Josef land had named this island first. La Ronciere Island's area is . Its latitude is 81° N and its longitude"
"Scottish Arctic explorer Sir James Lamont. Wilczek Island Wilczek Island, (Остров Вильчека; ""Ostrov Vil'cheka"") is located in the southeastern end of Franz Josef Land, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Wilczek Island was the first island of the Franz Josef Archipelago on which the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition set foot on November 1, 1873. A grave was dug ashore for Otto Krisch, a deceased member of the expedition and a cairn was erected with a message in a sealed container in it informing about the new discovery. On August 5, 1991, German ship ""Dagmar Aaen"" with the Arved Fuchs expedition reached Wilczek Island."
"paleontologist A.P. Bystrow. Jackson Island is named in honor of English polar voyager Frederick Jackson. He explored and named several islands, among other geographical features, in Franz Josef Land. The Jackson-Harmsworth Arctic Expedition (1894–1897) was sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society. Cape Norway () on the western part of the island was where Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen wintered in 1895-96 after failing to reach the North Pole. A hut and a wooden post still remain. Jackson Island Jackson Island (, ""Ostrov Dzheksona"") is an island located in Franz Josef Land, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russian Federation. This island is part of"
"Zemlya Georga Zemlya Georga, or Prince George Land (; ""Zemlya Georga"", ""George Land""), is an island in Franz Josef Land, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russian Arctic. Zemlya Georga was named by Benjamin Leigh Smith after Prince George. With a total surface of , Zemlya Georga is the largest island of the Franz Josef Archipelago. It is also the longest, with a distance of between its northernmost and its southernmost ends. The highest point of the island is the summit of Brusilov Ice Dome, the northeastern ice dome, at . The island has a complex coastline, with many bays, deep inlets and capes."
"glaciers (believed to be Franz Josef) was made in the log of the ship Mary Louisa in 1859. The glacier was later named after Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria by the German explorer, Julius von Haast in 1865. The Māori name for the glacier is ""Kā Roimata o Hine Hukatere"" ('The tears of Hine Hukatere'), arising from a local legend: Hine Hukatere loved climbing in the mountains and persuaded her lover, Wawe, to climb with her. Wawe was a less experienced climber than Hine Hukatere but loved to accompany her until an avalanche swept Wawe from the peaks to"
"Julius Payer, who made a discovery of Franz Josef Land, when he led, as a Commander at Shore, the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition together with Karl Weyprecht, who was a Commander at sea. Salm Island Salm Island (; ) is a roughly round-shaped island in Franz Josef Land, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Salm Island was named by the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition after the Salm-Hoogstraten aristocratic dynasty to which Count Karl Alexander, one of the expedition's main sponsors, belonged. Salm Island is almost completely glacierized except for two headlands in its western and its southern shore. The Chernyshev Ice Cap ""(Lednik"
"Mars Glacier Mars Glacier is a glacier in the southeastern corner of Alexander Island, Antarctica, long and wide, flowing south into the George VI Ice Shelf. The glacier lies between Two Step Cliffs and Phobos Ridge. Mars Glacier was first sighted from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth on November 23, 1935, and roughly mapped from photos obtained on that flight by W.L.G. Joerg. It was first surveyed in 1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for the planet Mars, the fourth planet from the sun in the Solar System. Although Mars Glacier"
"the islands count as a separate international ""entity"". Activity by operators has become less frequent, though does occasionally occur. Franz Josef Land Franz Josef Land, Franz Joseph Land or Francis Joseph's Land () is a Russian archipelago, inhabited only by military personnel, located in the Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea and Kara Sea, constituting the northernmost part of Arkhangelsk Oblast. It consists of 191 islands, which cover an area of , stretching from east to west and from north to south. The islands are categorized in three groups, a western, central and eastern, separated by the British Channel and the Austrian"
"winter, and Bjørvig kept the dead body of his friend in their joint sleeping bag for 55 days, until the rest of the team came to his rescue. This island should not be confused with the small Wilczek Island, ""Остров Вильчека"", located south-west of Salm Island, also in the Franz Josef group and named after the same person. Wilczek Land is the second largest island of the Franz Josef Archipelago. It is almost completely glacierized except for two narrow areas along its western shores. The highest point on the island is . Cape Ganza (""Mys Ganza"") is Wilczek Land's westernmost"
"found that ""Eva"" and ""Liv"" were in fact one island. Islands of Franz Josef Land include: Markham Sound is a waterway between Zichy Land and the islands of McClintock and Hall. West of the British Channel is Prince George Land. Alexandra Land contains Weyprecht Bay. West of Austria Sound is Zichy Land. Immediately north of Franz Josef Land is the Queen Victoria Sea. Climatic conditions here are very severe with lowest temperature touching minus (-)25 °C to (-) 30 °C during winter; even in summers the temperature does not rise above . The polar nights lasts for 125 days while"
"Alexandra Land Alexandra Land (, ""Zemlya Aleksandry"") is a large island located in Franz Josef Land, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russian Federation. Not counting detached and far-lying Victoria Island, it is the westernmost island of the Franz Josef Archipelago. It is the site of a Russian military base that was reopened in 2017. The highest point of the island, , is the summit of ""Kupol Lunny"" (Купол Лунный) ""Dome of the Moon"", a large ice dome covering most of the western part of the island. At the western end of the western glaciated area lies the Nordenskiöld Glacier; other glaciers in the"
"History of Franz Josef Land Franz Josef Land, an uninhabited archipelago located in the Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea and Kara Sea, may have been discovered by the 1865 expedition of the Norwegian sealing vessel ""Spidsbergen"" captained by Nils Fredrik Rønnbeck. However, the discovery was never announced and the existence of the territory only came to public notice following the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition of 1872, which named the archipelago in honor of Franz Joseph I of Austria. Benjamin Leigh Smith led the next expedition in 1880, which continued the work of the first expeditions in investigating the southern and central"
"strait to the east is the large Avstriskiy Proliv. Hall Island was named after American Arctic explorer Charles Francis Hall. Hall Island (Arctic) Hall Island (Russian: ""Остров Галля""; ""Ostrov Gallya"") is an island in Franz Josef Land, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. This island was discovered on August 30, 1873, by the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition. It was the first major island of the Franz Josef group on which the expedition members set foot. In 1898-99 a small camp was built at Mys Tegetkhof (Cape Tegethoff, ) by the Walter Wellman expedition. It contains a marker commemorating the discovery of the archipelago."
"island is Prince George Land, which measures , followed by Wilczek Land, Graham Bell Island and Alexandra Land. Eighty-five percent of the archipelago is glaciated, with large unglaciated areas being located on the largest islands and many of the smallest islands. The islands have a combined coastline of . Compared to other Arctic archipelagos, Franz Joseph Land has a high dissection rate of 3.6 square kilometers per coastline kilometer. Cape Fligely on Rudolf Island is the northernmost point of the Eastern Hemisphere. The highest elevations are found in the eastern group, with the highest point located on Wilczek Land, above"
"and to Pysen, off the southern tip of mainland Norway, 2580 km. Some sources describe Rossøya as the northernmost point of Europe, but this requires that Franz Josef Land be considered part of Asia, since Cape Fligely on Rudolf Island, Russia, is located at 81° 48′ 24″ North, which is 109 km closer to the North Pole. The island is named after James Clark Ross (1800–1862), a British explorer who was part of William Edward Parry's 1827 expedition with HMS ""Hecla"" to reach the North Pole. After passing by Sjuøyane and Rossøya, the expedition was forced to give up, after"