Greely Island

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Greely Island
Map of the Franz Josef Land
Map of the Franz Josef Land
Waters Arctic Ocean
Archipelago Franz Josef Land
Geographical location 81 ° 0 ′  N , 58 ° 18 ′  E Coordinates: 81 ° 0 ′  N , 58 ° 18 ′  E
Greely Island (Franz Josef Land)
Greely Island
length 17.5 km
width 10.5 km
surface 127 km²
Highest elevation 474  m
Residents uninhabited
Greely Island on a satellite photo (top right)
Greely Island on a satellite photo (top right)

Greely Island ( Russian Остров Грили ; Ostrow Grili) is an island in the arctic Franz Josef Land . Administratively, it belongs to the Russian Arkhangelsk Oblast .

geography

Greely Island is 17.5 km long and up to 10.5 km wide. Its area is 127 km². Its highest point is in the southeast and measures 474 m. Greely Island is completely glaciated with the exception of a few shore zones and peaks . On their coasts, glacier fronts alternate with steep cliffs.

The island is located in the east of the central group of Franz Josef Lands (Zichy Islands). To the northeast lie, separated by the Sterneck Sound, the Kane Island , the Kuhn Island and the Felseiland Brosch Island . In the sound between Greely Island and Ziegler Island to the southwest is the small Ugolnoi Kopi Island.

history

Greely Island was discovered in April 1874 by the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition, but was not explored further. It appears on Julius Payer's first map of Franz Josef Land as part of an extensive land mass he called Zichy Land. It was not until the Baldwin-Ziegler polar expedition (1901-1902) discovered that Zichy Land consists of several islands. Evelyn Baldwin set up one of his two base camps ( Kane Lodge ) on Greely Island, which he called McKinley Island. The island got its current name from Anthony Fiala (1869-1950), who had already participated in Baldwin's expedition and who led the Fiala-Ziegler expedition from 1903 to 1905. It is named after the American polar explorer Adolphus Greely , who carried out a dramatic expedition to the north of Ellesmere Islands from 1881–1884 as part of the First International Polar Year .

In the summer of 2012, sled parts and boards from a prefabricated hut were found on the coast of Greely Island. Possibly the remains of Baldwin's Kane Lodge , the exact location of which was not known until then.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ UNEP Islands (English)
  2. ↑ Topographic map U-40-XXVIII, IXXX, XXX (scale 1: 200,000)
  3. ↑ a b Andreas Umbreit: Greely Insel (Ostrow Grili) - Franz-Joseph-Land on the website www.franz-josef-land.info , accessed on September 30, 2017
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ A b Peter J. Capelotti: The Greatest Show in the Arctic: The American Exploration of Franz Josef Land, 1898–1905 . University of Oklahoma Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0-8061-5222-6 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  6. ^ Andreas Umbreit: Remains of "Kane Lodge" found on Greely Island, Franz Josef Land? (PDF; 9.8 MB). 2012, accessed October 1, 2017
  7. ^ Andreas Umbreit: The places of Franz Josef Land: current visits and imagery , Proceedings of a Workshop on the Historic Place Names of Franz Josef Land. In: Septentrio Conference Series . Volume 3, 2015, pp. 30-46 (English) doi : 10.7557 / 5.3581

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