Franz Josef Land comprises 192 islands ... aplomb than some of the bullheaded chieftains of the old efforts: National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Enric Sala, a smart marine ecologist who ...

This story appears in the January 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... miles to this spot off the northern coast of Franz Josef Land, the remote Siberian archipelago where Fridtjof ...

This story appears in the January 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... but for the distant archipelago of Franz Josef Land, some 600 miles to the south. Their desperate journey over ...

Sala, 56, is not simply a marine adventurer; his mission, through the National Geographic project conservation organisation ...

Franz Josef Land is well known for specific lines of its rocks. The image is printed on stickers, T-shirts and other souvenirs that tourists can buy at the national park. Back in the harsh August ...