MANZHEROK /Altai Region/, June 22. /TASS/. The Russian Geographical Society (RGS) plans to offer a tour to the country's northernmost archipelago - Franz Josef Land. During the tour, due in the ...

The term "archipelago" is borrowed from the Italian arcipelago, attested since the 14th century, itself a distortion of the Greek Aigaion Pelagos (Αἰγαῖον Πέλαγος).. This word originally referred to ...

MOSCOW, 23. /TASS/. Thawing ice opened five new islands on the Franz Josef Land Archipelago. The discoveries were made during a complex expedition of the Northern Fleet and the Russian Geographical ...

A Russian navy boat sank after being attacked by walruses, according to reports. The bizarre encounter took place during an expedition to the Franz Josef Land archipelago in the Arctic Ocean aboard a ...

One island of an archipelago far north of Russia has disappeared, satellite images show. Alexandra Barymova Lomonosov Moscow State University Marine Research Center The topography of the world is ever ...

THE Pescadores, which have recently been bombarded and occupied by Admiral Courbet, are a small group of islands lying in the Formosa Channel, about twenty-five miles off the west coast of Formosa.

The island of Chichijima, at first glance, may seem an unremarkable place in the vast Pacific Ocean. Part of the Ogasawara archipelago, Chichijima lays some 150 miles north of Iwo Jima and 500 miles ...