We have come north out of Murmansk across the Barents Sea, almost 40 of us, members of the 2013 Pristine Seas Expedition to Franz Josef Land, to view this remote archipelago through a variety of ...

Franz Josef Land is about the size of a small European country like Montenegro. The archipelago's map contains names in many languages: first and last names, cities and towns of absolutely ...

Russian scientists from the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) have uncovered a significant concentration of ancient whale remains on Wilczek Island, part of the Franz Josef Land ...

The Franz Josef Land Archipelago attracts many tourists, visiting the Arctic, and it may become a good Russian alternative to the Spitsbergen Archipelago, the International Union of Arctic and Far ...

A melting glacier has pulled back the veil on a prehistoric whale graveyard in Russia. Scientists at Russia’s Arctic and ...

A Russian naval research team has claimed to have discovered five islands in the Franz Josef Land archipelago in the Kara Sea area of the Arctic Ocean. Russian news agency RIA Novosti on August 27 ...

Franz Josef Land is in the Arkhangelsk Oblast, the same Russian region in which a failed nuclear military test on an offshore platform in the White Sea resulted in a sizeable radiation emission on ...

According to her, the occurrence of humpback whales near the Franz Josef Land marked the first time since the discovery of the archipelago in 1873. 22 May 2014 ...

Poseidon Expeditions, (347) 801-2610. Poseidon will offer two cruises to Franz Josef Land In 2019; departures are Aug. 1 and 13. Rates start at $8,816 for 14 days.

A rapidly melting glacier on Wilczek Island in Russia has uncovered a rare whale graveyard, revealing insights into sea-level changes.

According to her, the occurrence of humpback whales near the Franz Josef Land marked the first time since the discovery of the archipelago in 1873.

A trove of ancient whale bones was recently discovered beneath a melting Arctic glacier. The centuries-old skeletal remains ...