![]() Since then, the island has had a double name. However, in 1932, the members of the Soviet expedition on the ship "Nikolai Knipovich" found out that Liv is actually only a peninsula on the western tip of Eva. He named the discovered pieces of land after his daughter Liv and wife Eva. The Norwegian polar explorer, who first explored these places back in 1895, was confident that he had found two islands. At one time, even the famous Fridtjof Nansen made a mistake. Because of this, it is sometimes very difficult to determine where the land ends and the sea begins. Most of the islands in the Franz Josef Land are composed of perennial ice. The peninsula indicated on the map has almost completely melted, which was confirmed in 2021 by the employees at Russian Arctic National Park during an expedition to study walruses. The Jackson–Harmsworth expedition established in 1897 that the land discovered by Leigh Smith is composed of two separate islands, the other being today's Alexandra Land.A strait three kilometers wide separated Cape Mesyatsev from Eva-Liv Island in the Franz Josef Land Archipelago. The Geographers Bay, Zemlya Georga, Franz Josef Landīritish explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith, discovered Zemlya Georga in 1880. Arthur Island lies north of Zemlya Georga's northernmost end, separated from it by the sound known as Proliv Li-Smita.David Island (Ostrovok Davida), lat 80.15 N long 47.33 E, is a small islet located off Zemlya Georga's southwestern point.Most of the land lies under large glaciers and ice domes, such as the Brusilov Ice Dome, Gretton Ice Dome, Dzegudze Ice Dome (Купол Дзегудзе), Zander Ice Dome, Foggy Ice Dome (Купол туманный), Arctic Geology Research Institute Ice Dome (Купол Научно-исследовательский институт геологии Арктики) and the Peary Ice Dome, although there is a large, mostly unglacierized peninsula at its northern end, Poluostrov Armitidzh. The Nightingale Channel (Proliv Neytingeyl) runs east of Zemlya Georga, separating it from Bruce Island. There are no permanent inhabitants on the island however there is a seasonal research station which can shelter up to 10 persons. The sound known as Cambridge Channel (Proliv Kambritch) is located further to the southwest. The westernmost cape of this peninsula is Mys Mul'tanovskogo, beyond which lies the sound known as Proliv Arkhangelskiy between Zemlya Georga and Alexandra Land. The two capes pointing north, Mys Bryusa and Mys Battenberg, are separated from each other by Sommerville Bay. Its easternmost cape is known as Mys Murray. Zemlya Georga has three capes pointing southwestwards on its southern coast: Cape Neale (the westernmost end of the island), Cape Crowther and Cape Grant. The island has a complex coastline, with many bays, deep inlets and capes. The highest point of the island is the summit of Brusilov Ice Dome, the northeastern ice dome, at 416 metres (1,365 ft). It is also the longest, with a distance of 115 kilometres (71 mi) between its northernmost and its southernmost ends. With a total surface of 2,821 square kilometres (1,089 sq mi), slightly larger than Luxembourg, Zemlya Georga is the largest island of the Franz Josef Archipelago. Zemlya Georga was named by Frederick George Jackson after Prince George. Zemlya Georga, or Prince George Land ( Russian: Земля Георга Zemlya Georga, "George Land"), is the largest island in Franz Josef Land, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russian Arctic.
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