Talk:Franz Josef Land

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I don't agree that "non-English pictures don't belong here any more than non-English text". There is a fundamental difference between a map and a piece of text: you can understand a map without understanding the language. Both maps are perfectly comprehensible for an English speaker, particularly in the context of the article (one has almost exclusively Russian names in it, although written in Latin script, the other is mostly in German but leaves not the slightest doubt what it is about). Geographical articles need maps. If we don't have better ones, we should keep these until we do. There is no policy that I know of that prohibits use of foreign-language maps. (And by the way, while reverting is occasionally acceptable, re-reverting without discussion is no good style. A note to revert-war-happy contributors: with the exception of obvious vandalism I refuse on principle to enter revert wars, so any attempt to entice me into one is hopeless.) Happy editing, Kosebamse 19:49, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Category:Arctic islands vs. Category:Franz Josef Land
Category:Franz Josef Land is itself a category within Category:Arctic islands. — Robert Greer (talk) 01:52, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

about how many people are stationed/live there?
The article mentions a few bases there, but gives no indication of how large a population as would normally be done on articles about islands. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.148.183.191 (talk) 20:07, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

I have seen a couple of very brief and (for my purposes) non-citeworthy articles from tour providers that say that Franz Josef Land is completely unpopulated. 72.70.73.26 (talk) 14:36, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

FJL is home to an outpost of the Russian Federal Security Service, therefore, there are people there. Likely Russia has not anounced the population of this contingent.Moryak (talk) 23:04, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Franz Josef Land not volcanic
Franz Josef Land is not a volcanic formation and the volanic tag should be removed.Moryak (talk) 23:04, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

disectn rate
legibl pl..(2teknkl81.11.231.230 (talk) 18:40, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

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Dissection rate?
The article states that the dissection rate is 3.6 square kilometers per coastline kilometer, however, this quantity is not defined strictly because the length of coastline is dependent on the scale of the measurement (see coastline paradox). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.163.117.90 (talk) 14:45, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Discovery
Does Dutch shipmaster Cornelis Roule have a claim? Nicolaes Witsen (Noort ooster gedeelte van Asia en Europa, p. 920 (1705)) recounts Roule's claim to have sailed in the longitude of Novaya Zemlya as far as 84.5 or 85 degrees north, discovering land in the process. Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld briefly mentions it in his account of the voyage of the Vega:

"17th Century, year not stated. Shipmaster Cornelis Roule is said to have sailed in the longitude of Novaya Zemlya to 84° or 85° N.L. and there discovered a fjord-land, along which he sailed ten miles. Beyond that a large open sea was seen. From a high mountain situated on a sound, in which he rode, it appeared that he might sail one or two watches further to the north. He found there large numbers of birds, which were exceedingly tame {Witsen, p. 920). If we take some degrees from the latitude stated, which is perhaps not very unreasonable in dealing with the narratives of old whalers, which have passed through two or three hands, Roule may, as far back as two hundred years ago, have reached Franz-Josef's Land, and sailed along its coast to a very high latitude for those regions." (Voyage of the Vega 199 - Eroica (talk) 14:42, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

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