Leskov Island (Antarctica)
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- For Leskov Island in the South Sandwich Islands, see Leskov Island.
Leskov Island () is an ice-covered island in the West Ice Shelf, rising to 185 m, 6 miles northwest of Mikhaylov Island, off the coast of Antarctica. Discovered by the Soviet expedition of 1956, who named it for Lt. A. Leskov of the sloop Vostok on the Bellingshausen expedition in 1819-21.
This article incorporates text from Leskov Island (Antarctica), in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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