Lazarev coast

Lazarev coast
location	Peter I Island , Antarctica
Waters	Bellingshausen lake
From	Cape Eva 68 ° 45 ′ 42.2 ″  S , 90 ° 40 ′ 23.4 ″  W.
To	Mouth of the Zavodovskijbreen 68 ° 55 ′ 18.1 ″  S , 90 ° 39 ′ 33.2 ″  W

Coordinates: 68 ° 51 ′  S , 90 ° 44 ′  W

The Lazarev Coast ( Norwegian Lazarevkysten ) is a 19 km long stretch of coast on the west side of Peter I Island in Antarctica. It extends from the west side of Cape Eva in the north to the mouth of the Zavodovskijbreen . There the Vostok coast connects to the east .

Scientists at the Norwegian Polar Institute named her in 1974 after Mikhail Petrowitsch Lasarew (1788-1851), admiral of the Russian Navy and commander of the ship Mirny in the first Russian Antarctic expedition (1819-1821) under the direction of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen .

Web links

• Lazarevkysten in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
• Lazarevkysten in the Norwegian Polar Institute directory

Individual evidence

1. ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 913 (English).

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