Alexandra Land
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Key facts
- Location
- Arctic
- Coordinates
- 80°38′02″N 46°35′02″E / 80.6339°N 46.5839°E / 80.6339; 46.5839
- Archipelago
- Franz Josef Land
- Area
- 1,050 km (410 sq mi)
- Length
- 70 km (43 mi)
- Width
- 30 km (19 mi)
- Highest elevation
- 382 m (1253 ft)
- Highest point
- Kupol Lunny
- Population
- 5 (2007)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Franz Josef Land
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Arkhangelsk Oblast
- Capital
- Nagurskoye
- Population
- 5
- Area
- 1095
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
- Body of water
- Arctic Ocean
- Location
- Barents Sea
- Image
- Alexandra Land 2019-07-04 Sentinel-2 L2A Highlight Optimized Natural Color.jpg
- Width
- 30
- Length
- 70
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- Commons category
- Alexandra Land
- located in/on physical feature
- Franz Josef Land
- native label
- Земля Александры
- time of discovery or invention
- 1880-00-00
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
An Ilyushin Il-76 landing at Alexandra Land. Alexandra Land (Russian: Земля Александры, romanized: Zemlya Aleksandry) is a large island located in Franz Josef Land, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Not counting detached and far-lying Victoria Island, it is the westernmost island of Franz Josef Land. It is the site of a Russian military base that was reopened in 2017.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alexandra Land” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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