Vostok Island

Vostok Island
Vostok Island
Map of the Line Islands
Vostok Island is located in Kiribati
Vostok Island
Vostok Island
Vostok Island is located in Oceania
Vostok Island
Vostok Island
Vostok Island is located in Pacific Ocean
Vostok Island
Vostok Island
Geography
LocationSouth Pacific Ocean
Coordinates10°03′43″S 152°18′46″W / 10.06194°S 152.31278°W / -10.06194; -152.31278
ArchipelagoLine Islands
Area0.24 km2 (0.093 sq mi)
Length0.7 km (0.43 mi)
Width0.6 km (0.37 mi)
Highest elevation5 m (16 ft)
Administration
Demographics
Population0
Additional information
Time zone

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]

  1. ^ Armstrong, Terence (September 1971). "Bellingshausen and the discovery of Antarctica". Polar Record. 15 (99). Cambridge University Press: 887–889. Bibcode:1971PoRec..15..887A. doi:10.1017/S0032247400062112. S2CID 129664580.


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