Cape Mary Harmsworth (Russian: Мыс Мэри-Хармсуорт; Mys Meri Kharmsuort) is a cape located in
Alexandra Land
Alexandra Land (russian: Земля Александры, ''Zemlya Aleksandry'') is a large island located in Franz Josef Land, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russian Federation. Not counting detached and far-lying Victoria Island, it is the westernmost ...
(
Russian Federation
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...
).
This cape is the westernmost point of the
Franz Josef Archipelago proper, not counting far-lying
Victoria Island
Victoria Island ( ikt, Kitlineq, italic=yes) is a large island in the Arctic Archipelago that straddles the boundary between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories of Canada. It is the List of islands by area, eighth-largest island in the world, ...
which is geographically detached from the group.
Cape Mary Harmsworth was named after
Alfred Harmsworth
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (15 July 1865 – 14 August 1922), was a British newspaper and publishing magnate. As owner of the ''Daily Mail'' and the ''Daily Mirror'', he was an early developer of popular journal ...
' s wife Mary. Alfred Harmsworth, fellow of the
Royal Geographical Society, was the main sponsor of the 1894
Jackson-Harmsworth Polar Expedition to Franz Joseph Land.
This is the place that Russian navigator
Valerian Albanov
Valerian Ivanovich Albanov (russian: Валериа́н Ива́нович Альбанов; 26 May 1881 – 1919) was a Russian navigator, best known for being one of two survivors of the Brusilov expedition of 1912, which killed 22.
Ea ...
of the
Svyataya Anna reached in 1914 after his long and tragic ordeal on the Polar ice.
References
*Valerian Albanov, ''In the Land of White Death''.
*Jackson-Harmsworth Polar Expedition
Headlands of Franz Josef Land, Mary
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