Franz Josef Land comprises 192 islands, most of them built of Mesozoic sediments covered with a capping of columnar basalt, and so flat across the top that, viewed without ice (as they ...

Franz Josef is the fourth-largest glacier in New Zealand, 12km long with a snowfield of 20sq km. Yet up close it’s no smooth sea of ice but a patchwork of rocks, caves, seracs and crevasses ...

Objects related to the Arctic islands' explorers, found on the Franz Josef Land Archipelago ... They had been in the surf zone, where water and ice could reach them, and those were very ...