Wiener Neustadt Island

Wiener Neustadt Island
Map of the Franz Josef Land
Waters	Arctic Ocean
Archipelago	Franz Josef Land
Geographical location	80 ° 48 '  N , 58 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 80 ° 48 '  N , 58 ° 24'  E
length	22 km
width	16 km
surface	237 km²
Highest elevation	Peak Parnass 620  m
Residents	uninhabited
Location of the Wiener Neustadt island

The Wiener-Neustadt-Insel ( Russian Остров Винер-Нейштадт , Ostrow Winer-Njoischtadt , also Остров Винер-Нойштадт , Ostrow Winer-Noischtadt) is an island in the Franz-Josef-Land , Russian Federation .

The Wiener Neustadt island has an area of ​​237 km² and is almost entirely glaciated . The highest point on the island is Parnassus Peak at 620 m, the highest point in Franz-Josef-Land.

Central archipelago of Franz-Josef-Land - on the right the Wiener-Neustadt-Insel with shadows cast by the Peak Parnassus

The island is part of the Zichy Land subgroup of the Franz Josef Archipelago. It is separated from Ziegler Island and Salisbury Island by the narrow Collinson Strait (Proliw Kollinsona) .

The island was named by the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition under Julius Payer and Carl Weyprecht after the city of Wiener Neustadt , south of Vienna , whose Theresian Military Academy Payer had graduated from.

Web links

• Website with extensive information about Franz-Josef-Land

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Geography of the City of Arkhangelsk - Official website of the city of Arkhangelsk (Russian)
2. ↑ Geography of Russia, letter Ф (Russian)