Maps and Exploration

Bell Island (Franz Josef Land)

Bell Island (Russian: Остров Белл) is a small island in the south-west of the Franz Josef Land archipelago in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. The island was named by English explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith for its bell-shaped mountain, rising steeply from the island's southern coast with the Barents Sea.

Also on this shelf

See also

• ▸Adrien de Gerlache
• ▸Champa
• ▸Coppermine expedition

Uncatalogued shelf

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