Mikhaylov Island
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Mikhaylov Island is an ice-covered island in the West Ice Shelf
of Antarctica, rising to 240 m, 6 miles (11 km) 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.
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...
of Antarctica, rising to 240 m, 6 miles (11 km) southeast of Leskov Island
Leskov Island (Antarctica)
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....
. It was discovered by the Soviet expedition of 1956, who named it for Pavel N. Mikhaylov, artist on the Bellingshausen expedition in 1819-21.