Franz Josef Land
Proper noun
Meaning
Franz Josef Land
An archipelago in the Arctic Ocean in the north of Russia, north of Novaya Zemlya, east of Svalbard.
Examples
"I visited Franz Josef Land yesterday.
They had reached 86°34N on 24 April 1900, in an attempt to reach the North Pole from Franz Josef Land.
Nansen (1897), Vol. II p. 276 Whether this still-distant land was Franz Josef Land or a new discovery they did not know—they had only a rough sketch map to guide them.