The islands, known to researchers, remain understudied due to the complicated logistics and weather conditions - though the archipelago was discovered some 150 years ago MOSCOW, August 23. /TASS ...

Russia's northernmost territory, Franz Josef Land, is an archipelago of 191 islands in the northeastern Barents Sea. On August 17, 2011, clear skies allowed the Moderate Resolution Imaging ...

ARKHANGELSK, September 3. /TASS/. A Russian photographer Sergei Gorshkov will make a book about Franz Josef Land - the northernmost archipelago in Russia and Eurasia. According to the Russian Arctic ...

Hurtigruten said Russian authorities have abruptly denied it permission to land two previously scheduled calls in the Arctic archipelago of Franz Josef Land. The calls were scheduled to take place ...

This story appears in the August 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. Feodor Romanenko raises his arms. “Dear colleagues,” he says, with his usual puckish smile, and then launches into his ...

This isn’t the Russia you’ve heard about on cable news. You can't fake the beauty of this place a few hundred miles from the North Pole. I watched as the rays of the midnight sun caught a giant white ...

MOSCOW – President Vladimir Putin is visiting an Arctic archipelago as part of Russia's efforts to reaffirm its foothold in the region. Putin toured the Franz Josef Land archipelago, a cluster of 192 ...

Scientists first documented occurrence of humpback whales near the archipelago of Franz Josef Land. Experts attribute this to the successful development of their populations. The usual habitat in the ...

The clouds parted over the northeast Barents Sea region of the Arctic Ocean in late summer, 2011 allowing a view of the ice-covered islands of Franz Josef Land, Russia forming a stark-white contrast ...

A new era of dominance in a polar region opening up. The size and scale of Russia's military activities in the Arctic are producing negative perceptions and growing suspicion in the West. UPI reports ...