Arms of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Zavodovski Island

(Traversay Islands)

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Location: 56° 17' 46" S 27° 34' 32" W
N island of Traversay Islands (q.v.), rising to an active volcanic cone at c. 550 m, was discovered and charted by the Russian Antarctic Expedition on 4 January 1820; named Ostrov Zavadovskago or Ostrov Zavodovskiy after Kapitan-Leytenant Ivan Ivanovich Zavodovskiy [with variant spellings], Second-in-Command of the expedition ship Vostok. Zavodovskiy was a member of the party which landed on the island on 5 January 1820. The island was re-discovered on 12 December 1830 by Capt. James Brown of the schooner Pacific; landings were made and the island was called Prince's Island after Mr Prince, mate in Pacific. In 1908 the island was roughly surveyed by Larsen who made a landing. The island was roughly charted from Quest in 1922. A running survey of the island was made by Discovery Investigations in 1930. In 1957-58 landings were made on the island from the Soviet whaling ship Slava-15 (Capt. A. N. Solyanik). Landings were made on the island from Shackleton (Capt. D. H. Turnbull) in 1961 and from HMS Protector (Capt. R. H. Graham, RN) in 1962.