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Zichy Land

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Zichy Land
Земля Зичи
Zichy Land islands to the south ofRudolf Island.
Location of the Zichy Land subgroup of the Franz Josef Archipelago.
Geography
LocationArctic
Coordinates81°00′N56°00′E/ 81.000°N 56.000°E/81.000; 56.000
ArchipelagoFranz Josef Archipelago
Total islands22
Major islandsSalisbury Island,Jackson Island
Highest elevation620 m (2030 ft)
Highest pointPeak Parnass
Administration
Demographics
Population0
Zemlya Zichy in the central position of Franz Josef Land in the corner of a ca 1902Yeniseysk Governoratemap.

Zichy Land(‹See Tfd›Russian:Земля Зичи;Zemlya Zichy) is a geographical subgroup ofFranz Josef Land,Arkhangelsk Oblast,Russia. It is formed by the central cluster of large islands in the midst of the archipelago. The islands are separated from each other by narrow sounds that are frozen most of the year, forming a compact whole.[1]

This island group was named afterHungarianCount Ödön Zichy(1811-1894)[2]who was, besideCount Johann Nepomuk Wilczek,the second highest sponsor for theAustro-Hungarian North Pole Expeditionto Franz Josef Land.[citation needed]

Geography

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The broad channel to the southwest of Zichy Land is known asMarkham Soundor Markham Channel (‹See Tfd›Russian:Пролив маркама;Proliv Markama), after the British polar explorer Admiral SirAlbert Hastings Markham.[citation needed]

The northernmost point of Zichy Land isCape BemaonKarl-Alexander Islandand its southernmost point isCape FiumeonChamp Island.The distance between the two comprises 114 kilometres (71 miles). Cape Armitidzhin Luigi Island is the westernmost point of the subgroup. The highest point is 620 metres (2,034 feet) highPeak Parnasslocated onWiener Neustadt Island.[3] The channels separating the islands in the southeastern area of the group are very narrow.

Zichy Land in an 1874 Franz Josef Land map byJulius Payer.
Zichy Land in an 1898 map ofFrederick G. Jackson's explorations showing already separate islands.

Islands

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The individual islands forming the Zemlya Zichy archipelago are (from North to south):

See also

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