Sykov Island
| Sykov Island | ||
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| Waters | Davissee , Southern Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Haswell Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 32 '16 " S , 93 ° 0' 9" E | |
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| length | 290 m | |
| width | 150 m | |
| surface | 3 ha | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Sykow Island ( Russian Остров Зыкова Ostrow Sykowa ) is an island off the coast of Queen Marie Land . In the Haswell Islands group , it lies between Fulmar Island and Buromski Island .
The team from the west base of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered and mapped them. Soviet scientists carried out a new mapping in 1956 and later named it after the navigator Yevgeny Sykov, who died on February 3, 1957 during the Soviet expedition.
Web links
- Zykov Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Zykov Island on geographic.org (English)