Leskov Island (Antarctica)
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Leskov Island is an ice-covered island in the West Ice Shelf
, rising to 185 m, 6 miles northwest of Mikhaylov Island
, off the coast of Antarctica. Discovered by the Soviet expedition of 1956, who named it for Lt. A. Leskov of the sloop Vostok on the Bellingshausen expedition in 1819-21.
West Ice Shelf
The West Ice Shelf is a prominent ice shelf extending about 288 km in an E-W direction along the Leopold and Astrid Coast in East Antarctica between Barrier Bay and Posadowsky Bay. Discovered and named by the First German Antarctica Expedition, 1901-03, under Dr. Erich von Drygalski. The toponym...
, rising to 185 m, 6 miles northwest of Mikhaylov Island
Mikhaylov Island
Mikhaylov Island is an ice-covered island in the West Ice Shelf of Antarctica, rising to 240 m, 6 miles southeast of Leskov Island. It was discovered by the Soviet expedition of 1956, who named it for Pavel N. Mikhaylov, artist on the Bellingshausen expedition in 1819-21....
, off the coast of Antarctica. Discovered by the Soviet expedition of 1956, who named it for Lt. A. Leskov of the sloop Vostok on the Bellingshausen expedition in 1819-21.