page_title: Eva-Liv Island
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Eva-Liv Island / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Artifacts from the Fram museum in Oslo, Norway. This is the route taken by Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen during their 1895-96 expedition towards the North Pole, which ended at Franz Josef Land.
context_page_description: Eva-Liv Island, also known as Eva Island, is the northeasternmost island in Franz Josef Land, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russian Arctic.
context_section_description: The area where Eva Island lies was named Hvidtenland (White Land) by Fridtjof Nansen who reached Eva Island's coast on August 5, 1895 during his polar expedition with Hjalmar Johansen which ended at Franz Josef Land. In his map he drew two islands and he named the largest one to the east Eva Island after his wife Eva Nansen (died in 1907). The "island" to the west, which Nansen reached two days later, was named "Liv Island".
  This is the point of the Franz Josef Archipelago that Russian navigator Valerian Albanov of the doomed Brusilov expedition was trying to reach when he left the Svyataya Anna with part of the crew. Albanov, however, ended up far to the southwest in Alexandra Land.
caption: Original map of the route taken by Nansen and Johansen during their 1895-96 North Pole expedition.
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