Zavadovskiy Island

This article describes the island in Antarctica. Due to the similar spelling, there is a risk of confusion with Zavodovski Island in the archipelago of the South Sandwich Islands.

Zavadovskiy Island
Waters	West Ice Shelf
Geographical location	66 ° 43 ′  S , 86 ° 24 ′  E Coordinates: 66 ° 43 ′  S , 86 ° 24 ′  E
Highest elevation	200  m
Residents	uninhabited

Zavadovskiy Island ( Russian Остров Завадовского Ostrow Sawadowskowo ) is an ice-covered and uninhabited island in the western ice shelf off the Leopold and Astrid coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It is located 19 km east of Mikhaylov Island .

The island was discovered in 1956 during a Soviet Antarctic expedition . It is named after Iwan Iwanowitsch Sawadowski (1780–1837), deputy commander on board the Vostok for the first Russian Antarctic expedition (1819–1821) under the direction of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated the Russian designation into English in 1965.

Web links

• Zavadovskiy Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Zavadovskiy Island on geographic.org (English)