Greely Island


Greely Island is an island in Franz Josef Land, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.
This island was named after American Arctic explorer Adolphus Greely.

Geography

Greely Island's area is and it is almost completely glacierized.
Greely Island is part of the Zichy Land subgroup of the Franz Josef Archipelago. It is separated from Ziegler Island by a narrow sound.

Adjacent Islands

Brosch Island

Ostrov Brosh, also known as Kuna Island, is a large island with unglacierized shores lying off Greely Island's northern coastline. Maximum height. This island was named after Gustav Brosch, a naval lieutenant from Bohemia in the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition. Brosch Island also appears as "Ostrov Kuna" or "Ostrov Kun" in some maps. It was so renamed by the American Ziegler-Fiala Polar Expedition, perhaps not knowing that it had been named previously by the Austro-Hungarians, in a similar manner as La Ronciere Island.

Kane Island

Ostrov Keyna, is another large partly unglacierized island lying off Greely Island's northeastern shore, southeast of Brosch Island and separated from it by a narrow sound. Maximum height. Kane Island was named after American Arctic explorer Dr. Elisha Kent Kane.

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