Znamensky Island
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| Waters | Rennick Bay | |
| Geographical location | 70 ° 14 ′ S , 161 ° 51 ′ E | |
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The Znamensky Island ( Russian Остров Знаменского Ostrow Znamenskowo ) is a towering, almost circular and ice-covered island of about 4 km in diameter off the Oates coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located in Rennick Bay north of the mouth of the Rennick Glacier .
It was roughly mapped by participants in the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1957–1958) and named after the hydrograph Konstantin Ivanovich Znamensky (1903–1941).
Web links
- Znamenskiy Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Znamenskiy Island on geographic.org (English)