Cape Vostok
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 8 ′ S , 72 ° 9 ′ W | |
| location | Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Waters | Bellingshausen lake | |
| Waters 2 | Lazarev Bay | |
The Cape Vostok is a rocky cape at the northwest end of the West Antarctic Alexander Island . It forms the western foothills of the Havre Mountains and the northeast boundary of the entrance to Lasarev Bay .
The first sighting in 1821 goes back to the first Russian Antarctic expedition (1819–1821) led by the German-Baltic seafarer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen . The British geographer Derek Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960 carried out a detailed mapping using aerial photographs taken during the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the Cape in 1961 after von Bellingshausen's flagship, the Corvette Vostok .
Web links
- Cape Vostok in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Vostok on geographic.org (English)