Brooch Island

Brooch Island
Map of the Franz Josef Land
Waters	Arctic Ocean
Archipelago	Franz Josef Land
Geographical location	81 ° 6 '7 "  N , 58 ° 20' 51"  E Coordinates: 81 ° 6 '7 "  N , 58 ° 20' 51"  E
length	500 m
width	400 m
surface	12 ha
Highest elevation	85  m
Residents	uninhabited
Location of the Zichy Land subgroup of the Franz Josef Archipelago. Brooch Island is positioned to the east.

The Brosch Island ( Russian Остров Брош ; Ostrow Brosch) is an island in the Arctic Archipelago Franz Josef Land . Administratively, it belongs to the Russian Arkhangelsk Oblast .

geography

Brooch Island measures almost half a kilometer in diameter. It is 12 hectares in size and rises 85 m above sea level.

The island is located in the east of the central group of Franz Josef Lands (Zichy Islands). It is located south of Kuhn Island , from which it is only about 200 meters away, in Sterneck Sound. Greely Island is to the south and Kane Island to the west .

Jackson's map of Franz Josef Lands from 1898 with the Brosch island

history

The island appears for the first time on a map of the British polar explorer Frederick Jackson from 1898. It was named after ship lieutenant Gustav Brosch (1844–1924), a participant in the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition from 1872 to 1874. The island is likely a discovery of this expedition, since Jackson did not visit the region around Brosch Island himself. Brooch Island is not shown on the earlier maps by Julius Payers and Fridtjof Nansen .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Topographic map U-40-XXVIII, IXXX, XXX (scale 1: 200,000)
2. ^ Julius Payer: The Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition in the years 1872–1874 , Alfred Hölder, Vienna 1876. Original map of the Emperor Franz Josef Land
3. ↑ Fridtjof Nansen: In night and ice . Second volume, Brockhaus, Leipzig 1897. Preliminary map sketch of the group of islands known as Franz-Joseph-Land

Web links

• Andreas Umbreit: Brosch-Insel on the website www.franz-josef-land.info