Zavodovski Island is an uninhabited
volcanic island
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in the
Traversay Islands subgroup of the
South Sandwich Islands
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. It lies southeast of
South Georgia Island
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The island is home to around a million pairs of breeding
chinstrap penguins, which is the largest number of penguins found anywhere besides Antarctica.
History
Zavodovski Island was discovered and named by
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on December 23, 1819. Bellingshausen named it after Captain-Lieutenant , who was captain of his ship, the
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[ A group of three members of the expedition, Captain-Lieutenant Ivan Zavadovskiy, astronomer Prof. Ivan Simonov, and Lieutenant Dmitriy Demidov, landed on the island on December 24, 1820 and collected speciments of volcanic rocks, and caught some birds and penguins.
The American schooner ''Pacific'' under Captain James Brown landed at Zavodovski Island in 1830.][ The island was surveyed in 1930 by ]Discovery Investigations
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A volcanic eruption was identified on the island on 2 May 2012, though the size of the eruption is unknown.
The volcano erupted again in March 2016; by July, between one third and one half of the island was covered in ash, putting the penguin colonies at risk.
. It is approximately across with a peak elevation of above sea level.