Tsiolkovsky Island
| Tsiolkovsky Island | ||
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| Waters | Fimbul Ice Shelf , Lake Lazarev | |
| Geographical location | 70 ° 30 ′ S , 3 ° 0 ′ E | |
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The Tsiolkovsky Island ( Russian Остров Циолковский Ostrow Tsiolkovsky ) is the larger of two icy islands in the Fimbul Ice Shelf off the Princess Martha coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It is located immediately southwest of the smaller island of Kroshka Island .
Soviet scientists did the first mapping and naming in 1961. It is named after the Russian space pioneer Konstantin Eduardowitsch Ziolkowski (1857–1935).
Web links
- Tsiolkovskiy Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tsiolkovskiy Island on geographic.org (English)