Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Zavadovskiy Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Zavadovskiy Island (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
An elevation in the surface of the West Ice Shelf, rising to 197 m above sea level. Discovered by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). This feature was called Ostrov Zavadovskogo (Lednikovyy kupol) after I.I. Zavadovskiy, Lieutenant-Commander of the sloop Vostok, one of the ships of the Bellingshausen Expedition (1819-1821).
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