Brady Island (russian: Остров Брейди; Ostrov Bryeydi) is an island in Franz Josef Land,

Arkhangelsk Oblast Arkhangelsk Oblast (russian: Арха́нгельская о́бласть, ''Arkhangelskaya oblast'') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It includes the Arctic Ocean, Arctic archipelagos of Franz Josef Land ...

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Geography

The island has a maximum altitude of . Between its northernmost point, Cape Wiese (Russian: мыс Визе), and its southernmost point, Cape Krasovsky (Russian: мыс Красовского), it is about in length. Located in the central part of the archipelago, it lies west of McClintock Island, separated by the Aberdare Strait (Russian: пролив Абердэр). Brice, Bliss, and Leigh-Smith Island are located to the north and west of Brady Island, beyond the Sidorov Strait (Russian: пролив Сидорова).

History

The island was discovered by Benjamin Leigh Smith in 1880. It is most likely named after Henry Bowman Brady, a zoologist who examined collections from both the Austro-Hungarian North Pole expedition and Albert Hastings Markham’s expedition in 1879. The expedition also gave the name Cape Speelman to what is now Cape Krasovsky, after Jhr. M. H. Speelman (1852–1907), a lieutenant on the Dutch Arctic expeditions 1878–1879. The current name was given in 1950, in honour of Russian scientist

Feodosy Krasovsky Feodosy Nikolaevich Krasovsky (russian: Феодосий Николаевич Красовский) ( – October 1, 1948) was a Russian and later Soviet Union, Soviet astronomer and geodesist. He was born in Galich, Russia, Galich. In 1900 he gra ...

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Islands of Franz Josef Land Uninhabited islands of Russia {{ArkhangelskOblast-geo-stub

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