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Leskov Island (Antarctica)

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Location
  
Antarctica

Population
  
Uninhabited

Highest elevation
  
185 m (607 ft)

Elevation
  
185 m

Leskov Island (Antarctica)

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

References

Leskov Island (Antarctica) Wikipedia