Leskov Island

Leskov Iceland is a small uninhabited volcanic island located in the southern Atlantic Ocean British overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. The discovery and naming in 1819 by the Russian Antarctic sailors Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. This named the island after Lieutenant A. Leskov, the third officer of his expedition ship Vostok.

Geography

Leskov Iceland is located about 300 km southeast of the main island of South Georgia and northeast of the Antarctic, in the archipelago of the South Sandwich Islands, and, together with her two, about 50 km east nearest neighbor islands Zavodovski Iceland and Iceland Visokoi the group of Traversayinseln.

The island, with a land area of ​​0.4 km ² hardly is of volcanic origin. It differs from the other South Sandwich by two features: First, Leskov lies to the west outside the island arc formed by the other South Sandwich Islands, and second, the rock of the island is not predominantly basalt, as in the other islands, but is about one half of andesite.