Markham Sound
80°36′N 55°00′E / 80.6°N 55°E
Markham Sound (
Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition. The name commemorates the British Royal Navy officer Albert Hastings Markham
(1841–1918).
The Markham Sound separates the northern island group from the southern group of the Franz Josef Land archipelago. From the west the strait starts at the British Channel, runs in a southeasterly direction and ends in the Austrian Strait.
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