The Franz Josef Land Archipelago: E.B. Baldwin’s Journal of the Wellman ... - E.B. Baldwin - Google Books

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Franz Josef Land is a forbidding place, isolated by geography and history. Lying above the Arctic Circle in the northernmost province of Russia, this remote series of islands was only discovered by Westerners in 1873, and remains little known today. A few…