Babushkin Island
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| Waters | Somow Lake , Southern Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 6 ′ S , 157 ° 36 ′ E | |
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The Babushkin Island ( Russian Остров Бабушкина , transcribed Ostrow Babushkina ) is a small island off the north coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located 9 km north of Archer Point and 8 km east of the tongue of the Matusevich Glacier .
Participants in a Soviet Antarctic expedition mapped it in 1958 and named it after the Soviet Arctic pilot Mikhail Babushkin (1893–1938).
Web links
- Babushkin Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Babushkin Island on geographic.org (English)