FRANZ JOSEF LAND
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Franz Josef Land consists of 191 ice-covered islands
The officially recognized discovery took place in 1873 by the Austrian polar explorers Payer and
Weyprecht, who named the new land in honour of the Austrian emperor Franz Josef I
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