Wilczek-Land

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Wilczek Land (Russian Земля Вильчека, Wiltscheka Zemlya ) is an island in the southeast of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Ocean. It lies at the Austria Sound opposite the Hall Island. Wilczek country is about 2200 km ², the second largest island of the archipelago. The surface of up to 606 m high Wilczek country - with the exception of a few narrow coastal areas in the north and south of the island - almost completely glaciated.

Located in the Persey Bay on the south coast, about 9 km from Wilczek Land ( at 80 ° 21 ' N, 60 ° 15' O80.35416666666760.25 ), located 4 km ² large Klagenfurt Island ( Остров Клагенфурт ). It is named after the capital of Carinthia.

History

Wilczek Land in 1873 from the Austria -Hungarian North Polar Expedition ( 1872-1874 ) discovered and - as before the Wilczek Island - after the main promoter of the company, Johann Nepomuk Graf Wilczek, named. Julius Payer mapped the south and west of the island in the spring of 1874 during a field trip by dog ​​sled.

A group led by Evelyn Baldwin put while Walter Wellman's North Pole expedition failed of 1898/99 at the Cape Heller at a depot. To his left guard Baldwin in October 1898, two members of the expedition, the Norwegian Bernt Bentsen ( 1860-1899 ) and Paul Bjørvig ( 1857-1932 ), in a primitive dwelling from stacked stones back. Bentsen was in November fell ill and died in early January 1899. Wellman's until the arrival on February 27 Bjørvig kept frozen body in a sleeping bag in the hut, so as not to leave him to the polar bears. Bentsen was buried on Cape Heller. 1960 renewed Soviet researchers the grave and brought to a memorial plaque. The mapping of the east coast of Wilczek - country and thereby made ​​the discovery of neighboring Graham Bell Island by Baldwin represent the actual performance of the Wellman expedition dar.