Greely Island

Greely Island

Geography
Location	Arctic
Coordinates	81.0044°N 58.2978°E / 81.0044; 58.2978
Archipelago	Franz Josef Archipelago
Area	127 km2 (49 sq mi)
Administration
Russia
Demographics
Population	0

Greely Island (Russian: Остров Грили; Ostrov Grili) is an island in Franz Josef Land, Russia. Its area is 127 km² (49 sq mi) 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.

This island was named after American Arctic explorer Adolphus Greely.

Adjacent Islands

• Ostrov Brosh (Остров Брош), Brosch Island is a large island with unglacierized shores lying off Greely Island's northern coastline. Maximum height 228 m (748 ft). 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 many maps. It was probably 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.
• Ostrov Keyna (Остров Кейна), Kane Island, is another large partly unglacierized island lying off Greely Island's northeastern shore, southeast of Brosch Island and separated from it by a 2 km (1.2 mi) narrow sound. Maximum height 282 m (925 ft). Kane Island was named after American Arctic explorer Dr. Elisha Kent Kane.

See also

• Franz Josef Land
• List of islands of Russia

External links

• Location: [1]
• [2]
• Historical data