Zavadovskiy Island


Zavadovskiy Island, also known as Penguin Island, is an ice-covered island in the West Ice Shelf near Antarctica located at. It rises to 200 meters and is located 12 miles east of Mikhaylov Island. It was discovered by the Soviet expedition of 1956 which named it for Ivan Zavadovskiy, second in command of the Imperial Russian Navy sloop-of-war Vostok in the Bellingshausen expedition in 1819–21.