Wilczek Land


Wilczek Land, is an island in the Arctic Ocean at. It is the second-largest island in Franz Josef Land, in Arctic Russia.

History

The second largest island in the Franz Josef Land archipelago is named after Austro-Hungarian Count Johann Nepomuk Wilczek. Count Hans Wilczek was the most important sponsor of the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition to Franz Josef Land, although he himself never visited the archipelago.
Cape Heller was the wintering site for two Norwegians, Paul Bjørvig and Bernt Bentsen, members of the 1898-9 Wellmann Expedition, while their team led by Walter Wellmann stayed in the main camp at Cape Tegethoff on Hall Island to the south. Bentsen died during the winter, and Bjørvig kept the dead body of his friend in their joint sleeping bag for 55 days, until the rest of the team came to his rescue.
This island should not be confused with the small Wilczek Island, "Остров Вильчека", located south-west of Salm Island, also in the Franz Josef group and named after the same person.

Geography

Wilczek Land is the second largest island of the Franz Josef Archipelago, at 2203 km². It is almost completely glacierized except for two narrow areas along its western shores. The highest point on the island is.
Cape Ganza is Wilczek Land's westernmost cape. The channel to the west, between Wilczek Land and Gallya, is known as Avstriyskyy Proliv.

Glaciers and ice domes

The Kupol Arktirazvedki ice dome covers the northeastern part of the island. On the western side of the Arktirazvedki ice dome there are two glaciers, the Stremitelny Glacier ' "Rushing Glacier", and the Molochny Glacier ' "Milky Glacier" to its west, both having their terminus on the northern shore.
Further to the south the Kupol Tindalya ice dome, named after Irish glaciologist John Tyndall, covers the eastern central area of the island. To the southwest of it flows the Znamenity Glacier, which has its terminus on the southern coast, east of the "Cloudy Dome" Kupol Oblachnyy ice dome at the southern end of the island.

Adjacent minor islands