Kupriyanov Islands

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Kupriyanov Islands
Waters Lake Scotia , South Atlantic
Geographical location 54 ° 45 ′  S , 36 ° 19 ′  W Coordinates: 54 ° 45 ′  S , 36 ° 19 ′  W
Kupriyanov Islands (South Georgia)
Kupriyanov Islands
Residents uninhabited

The Kuprijanow Islands ( English Kupriyanov Islands ) are an uninhabited archipelago off the south coast of the South Atlantic island of South Georgia . It is in front of the entrance to Diaz Cove . The group includes Diomedea Island , Lazarev Island and Poncet Island .

The German-Baltic Antarctic explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen named a cape between Novosilski Bay and Cape Disappointment as Russian Мыс Куприянова (transcribed Mys Kuprijanova ) during the first Russian Antarctic expedition (1819-1821 ). It is named after Ivan Kuprijanow, an officer of the expedition ship Mirny on this research trip. John M. Chaplin (1888-1977), from 1928 to 1930 head of the hydrographic survey team on South Georgia as part of the British Discovery Investigations , overlooked the omnipotent name and gave the Cape the name Johannesen Point after a Norwegian sealer captain. The South Georgia Survey decided in the course of surveys carried out between 1955 and 1956 that this landmark is too insignificant to be named and transferred Bellingshausen's name to the islands described here.

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