Demidow Island
| Demidow Island | ||
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| Waters | Cosmonaut Lake | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 29 ′ S , 48 ° 21 ′ E | |
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The Demidow Island ( Russian Остров Демидова Ostrow Demidowa ) is a small island off the coast of the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It is located 15 km southwest of the Hydrographer Islands in front of the mouth of the Rayner Glacier .
Participants of a team of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions mapped it in 1956. Participants of a Soviet Antarctic expedition , which also named the island, repeated this in the same year. It is named after Dmitri Demidow, a lieutenant on the research ship Vostok in the first Russian Antarctic expedition (1819–1821) led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen .
Web links
- Demidov Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Demidov Island on geographic.org (English)