Location Antarctica Population Uninhabited | Highest elevation 185 m (607 ft) Elevation 185 m | |
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Leskov Island is an ice-covered island in the West Ice Shelf of Antarctica, rising to 185 metres (600 ft), 11 kilometres (6 nmi) northwest of Mikhaylov Island. It was discovered by the Soviet expedition of 1956, who named it for Lieutenant A. Leskov of the sloop Vostok on the Bellingshausen expedition of 1819–21.
Map of Leskov Island, Antarctica
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