Open AccessChapter 3. The place names of Franz Josef Land: framing the problem
Author(s) -
Magnus Forsberg
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
septentrio conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2387-3086
DOI - 10.7557/5.3580
Subject(s) - framing (construction) , arctic , the arctic , geography , history , toponymy , cartography , north pole , genealogy , archaeology , physical geography , geology , oceanography
A brief introduction to the geographic place names of Franz Josef Land. Franz Josef Land is located in the western Arctic though for much of the 20th Century it was closed behind the Iron Curtain. Prior to that, there were a series of Western expeditions between the ‘official’ discovery in 1873 and the departure of the American Fiala group in 1905. From these expeditions, the islands are heavily connected to the history of the search for the North Pole.