Sagoskin Island
| Sagoskin Island | ||
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| Waters | Nickerson Ice Shelf | |
| Geographical location | 75 ° 38 ′ S , 144 ° 45 ′ W | |
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The Sagoskin Island ( Russian Остров Загоскина Ostrow Sagoskina ) is an island off the Ruppert coast of the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It is located west of Newman Island in the Nickerson Ice Shelf .
Russian scientists named them. The namesake is not known. An obvious namesake is the Russian explorer Lavrenti Alexejewitsch Sagoskin (1808–1890).
Web links
- Zagoskina, ostrov in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)