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Tsiolkovskiy Island
Tsiolkovskiy
Island
is an ice-covered
island
in the
Fimbul Ice Shelf
,
Queen Maud Land
. The
summit
of
the island
rises
about
200 m
above the general level of the
ice shelf
.
Kroshka Island
lies close
southwest
and is similar but
smaller
. First mapped by the
Soviet Antarctic Expedition
in
1961
and named for
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky
,
Russian
scientist
and
inventor
.