Native name: острова Фирнлея | |
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 Map of the group showing adjacent islands | |
 Location of the Firnley Islands in the Kara Sea | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Kara Sea |
| Coordinates | 77°04′N 100°19′E / 77.067°N 100.317°E |
| Archipelago | Firnley Archipelago |
| Total islands | 3 |
| Major islands | Dlinnyy |
| Administration | |
Russia | |
| Krai | Krasnoyarsk Krai |
| Demographics | |
| Population | uninhabited |
The Firnley Islands (Russian: острова Фирнлея; Ostrova Firnleya, Nynorsk: Firnleyøyane) is a group of three small islands covered with tundra vegetation and with scattered stones on their shores. They lie in the Kara Sea, close to the bleak coast of Siberia's Taymyr Peninsula, not far east of the Nordenskjold Archipelago. These islands lie about 35 km from the continental shore.
The Firnley Islands were named by Fridtjof Nansen after Thomas Fearnley?, a Norwegian merchant who was one of the main financiers of the Fram expedition. They were also explored later by the Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition.[1]
- ^ L. M. Starokadomski, O. J. Cattley, Vilkitski's North-East Passage, 1914-15