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Zavodovski Island

Zavodovski Island is a volcanic island in the South Sandwich Islands. It lies 350 kilometers southeast of South Georgia at latitude 56° 30' south, longitude 27° 57' west.

The island is roughly square with diameter of about 5 kilometers and a peak elevation is 551 meters above sea level. The volcano Mount Curry dominates the western side of the island while the eastern half is a low-lying lava plain. Mount Curry is believed to be active with fresh lava reported in 1830 and numerous indications of activity since.

Despite being the northernmost of the South Sandwich Islands and nearest to South Georgia, Zavodovski Island is uninhabited.

Zavodovski Island was disovered and named by the Russian Antarctic explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen in 1819.

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