Vostok Island is an uninhabited coral island in the central Pacific Ocean, part of the Line Islands belonging to Kiribati. Other names for the island include Anne Island, Bostock Island, Leavitts Island, Reaper Island, Wostock Island or Wostok Island. The island was first sighted in 1820 by the Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, who named the island for his ship Vostok.[a]
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VostokIsland is an uninhabited coral island in the central Pacific Ocean, part of the Line Islands belonging to Kiribati. Other names for the island...
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maintain military bases on the Islands of Canton, Enderbury or Hull. Line Islands — divided by the treaty. Howland and Baker islands — U.S. possessions not included...
two autonomous territories within the Kingdom, the other being the Faroe Islands; the citizens of both territories are full citizens of Denmark. As Greenland...
on the 985-ton sloop-of-war Vostok ("East") and the 530-ton support vessel Mirny ("Peaceful") discovered Elephant Island on 29 January 1821 and named...
disprove the existence of a suspected seventh continent, Antarctica. The sloop Vostok was under the command of Bellingshausen, while Lazarev commanded the sloop...
Sanctuary. VostokIsland, 0.24 km2 (0.093 sq mi), is a Terrestrial and Inland Waters Protected Area - Wildlife Sanctuary. Bonriki Island Water Reserve...
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Vostok 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...
Bellingshausen's expedition, who commanded the ships Vostok and Mirny under the Russian flag. He named the island for Tsar Peter I of Russia. Drift ice made it...
coldest places on Earth. With an average temperature of −55.2 °C (−67.4 °F), Vostok, Antarctica is the coldest place in the world, and has also recorded the...
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