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Geography of Franz Josef Land refers to an island group belonging to
Arkhangelsk Oblast of
Russia. It is situated in the
Barents Sea of the
Arctic, north of
Novaya Zemlya and east of
Svalbard. At latitudes between
80.0°and 81.9° north, it is the most northerly group of islands associated with
Eurasia. The extreme northernmost point is
Cape Fligely on
Rudolf Island. The archipelago consists of 191 ice-covered
islands with a total area of 16,134 km2(6,229 sq mi). It is currently uninhabited. The archipelago is only 900 to 1,110 km (560 to 690 miles) from the North Pole, and the northernmost islands are closer to the Pole than any other land except for Canada's
Ellesmere Island and
Greenland. The largest island is
Zemlya Georga (George Land) which measures 110 km (68 mi) from end to end. The highest point in the archipelago is on Ostrov Viner-Neyshtadt (
Wiener Neustadt Island) which reaches 620 m (2,034 ft) above sea level. The central cluster of large islands in the midst of the archipelago forms a compact whole, known as
Zichy Land, where islands are separated from each other by very narrow sounds that are frozen most of the year.