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Payer Island
Payer Island. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Payer Island (Russian: остров Пайера) is an island in Franz Josef Land, Russia.

This island was named after Julius Johannes Ludovicus von Payer an Austro-Hungarian arctic explorer and an Arctic landscape artist, one of the leaders of the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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