We have come north with Romanenko into the high Russian Arctic, to an archipelago known as Franz Josef Land, and although it’s not our primary purpose, that question underlies much of what we’ ...

The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...

TASS Correspondent Irina Skalina/. I have been happy to visit more than 30 islands of the Franz Josef Land Archipelago in recent years, and, positively, every island is unlike another. Scientists ...

extraordinary inaccuracies in Payer's map of Franz Josef Land. Finding, however, that Mr. Jackson's sledge journeys had only been directed along the very outskirts of the region laid down by Lieut.

ARKHANGELSK, September 3. /TASS/. A Russian photographer Sergei Gorshkov will make a book about Franz Josef Land - the northernmost archipelago in Russia and Eurasia. According to the Russian ...

According to satellite imagery, the island of Mesyatseva was formed from the peninsula of the same name as a result of the ...

On October 31, the Russian Geographical Society reported the complete disappearance of Mesechev Island, an ice formation with an area of 53 hectares, from the Franz Josef Land archipelago in the ...

Beginning at the North Pole, the pair had skied 600 miles to this spot off the northern coast of Franz Josef Land, the remote Siberian archipelago where Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen had ...

ASIATODAY.ID, MOSCOW - A large glacier near Russia’s Franz Josef Land archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, described as an ...

Now Franz Josef Land is home to a Russian military base and the source of added tension in relations with the West. The US has once again accused Moscow of "militarising" the Arctic and the head ...