Greely Island

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

Greely Island (Russian: Остров Грили; Ostrov Grili) is an island in Franz Josef Land, Russia. Its area is 127 km² and it is almost completely glacierized.

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

This island was named after American Arctic explorer Adolphus Greely.

[edit] Adjacent Islands

• Ostrov Brosh (Остров Брош), Brosch Island is a large island with unglacierized shores lying off Greely Island's northern coastline. Maximum height 228 m. 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 many maps. It was probably renamed by the American Ziegler-Fiala expedition, unknowing that it had been named previously by the Austro-Hungarians, in a similar manner as La Ronciere Island.
• Ostrov Keyna (Остров Кейна), Kane Island, 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 narrow sound. Maximum height 282 m. Kane Island was named after American Arctic explorer Dr. Elisha Kent Kane.

[edit] References

• Franz Josef Land
• Location: [1]
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• Historical data

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