Franz joseph land stone spheres

The Mysterious Stone Balls Of Champ Island

On May 22, 2014 by Tim Newman

It’s easy to stick a “mysterious” or “amazing” or “mind-blowing” on the front of a title to try and garner a few extra clicks.

But in this case I think my use of “mysterious” is merited (for once).

Franz joseph land stone spheres

These stone balls on Champ Island don’t even have a Wikipedia page!? Yeah, I know, that’s pretty mysterious in itself. There’s a page about carved stone balls in Scotland, and there’s one about some big stone spheres in Costa Rica.

But these Champ island ones are Wikipedialess.

PHOTOS FROM 100TH ARCTIC CRUISE

SIBERIA 100 YEARS AGO

Thel photos come from a Russian website, it seems that the Russians are the only people taking this phenomenon seriously.

Champ Island is in the centre of an area that belongs to Russia which is called Franz Josef Land.

It’s situated hundreds of miles north of Russia’s mainland coast,