Zavadovskiy Island, also known as Penguin Island, is an ice-covered island in the

West Ice Shelf The West Ice Shelf is a prominent ice shelf extending about in an east–west direction along the Leopold and Astrid Coast in East Antarctica between Barrier Bay and Posadowsky Bay, and up to 120 km northwards from the continental mar ...

near

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located at . It rises to 200 meters (656 feet) and is located 12 miles east of

Mikhaylov Island Mikhaylov Island is an ice-covered non erupted Volcano in the West Ice Shelf of Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by t ...

. It was discovered by the Soviet expedition of 1956 which named it for , second in command of the

Imperial Russian Navy The Imperial Russian Navy () operated as the navy of the Russian Tsardom and later the Russian Empire from 1696 to 1917. Formally established in 1696, it lasted until being dissolved in the wake of the February Revolution and the declaration of ...

sloop-of-war During the 18th and 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship of the Royal Navy with a single gun deck that carried up to 18 guns. The rating system of the Royal Navy covered all vessels with 20 or more guns; thus, the term encompassed all u ...

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'' in the Bellingshausen expedition in 1819–21. A temporary field station named Druzhba was opened from May 20 to August 6 in 1960 on the island by the

Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

to study meteorological conditions.

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