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Demidov Island
Demidov
Island
is a
small island
north
of the
mouth
of
Rayner Glacier
and
southwest
of the
Hydrographer Islands
along the
coast
of
Enderby Land
. It
appears
that
the island
was mapped by both the
Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions
and the Soviet
expedition
in 1957. It was named by the Soviet expedition for
Lieutenant
Dimitri Demidov
of the
Russian
expedition of 1819–21 under
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
.
