Stoltz Island () is a small

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off the northwest coast of Alexander Island,

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, south of

Cape Vostok Cape Vostok () is a rocky headland which forms the west extremity of the Havre Mountains and the northwest extremity of Alexander Island in Antarctica. It was discovered by the First Russian Antarctic Expedition in 1821, led by Fabian Gottlieb von ...

and southwest of

Buneva Point Buneva Point ( bg, нос Бунева, ‘Nos Buneva’ \'nos 'bu-ne-va\) is the sharp rocky point on the northwest coast of Alexander Island in Antarctica projecting 1 km west-southwestwards into Lazarev Bay just south of the terminus of L ...

. The island was photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy, 1966, and was plotted by DOS, 1977, from the photographs and

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imagery of January 1974. Named by

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(US-ACAN) for Lieutenant Commander Charles L. Stoltz, U.S. Navy, Staff Photographic Officer, Naval Support Force, Antarctica, Operation Deepfreeze, 1970 and 1971.

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Islands of Alexander Island {{AlexanderIsland-geo-stub

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