MOSCOW, 23. /TASS/. Thawing ice opened five new islands on the Franz Josef Land Archipelago. The discoveries were made during a complex expedition of the Northern Fleet and the Russian ...

Franz Josef Land comprises 192 islands, most of them built of Mesozoic sediments covered with a capping of columnar basalt, and so flat across the top that, viewed without ice (as they ...

A student project group noticed the complete disappearance of the ice formation of Mesyatsev Island from satellite images due ...

(AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky) The Ivan Papanin will over the next three months undergo ice tests in the waters around Franz ...

During the field season in 2019, specialists removed ice from the building and planned ... National Park presently has two bases on Franz Josef Land: a year-round facility on Alexandra Land ...