Talk:Zavodovski Island

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Distance from South Georgia
This article gives the distance between Zavodovski Island and South Georgia as 350 km. The article titled South Georgia gives the distance as 550 km. Old Father Time (talk) 13:58, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Research history and naming
I think the "research history and naming" section of this GA needs some improvement. Firstly it doesn't really explain why this island is named "Zavodovski" - is it named after the same person as Zavadovskiy Island linked in the hatnote? Assuming it's named after someone Russian, claiming that there is a "correct spelling" of this name in the Latin alphabet is problematic, the correct spelling is presumably Заводовский or Завадовский, which can be transliterated in many ways in languages that use the Latin alphabet. – filelakeshoe (t / c) 🐱 11:05, 9 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Aye, as per Bellingshausen's account which however does not explicitly say why. I am not sure on which basis Barr 2000 called one transliteration correct; his own words: The correct transliteration of the name of the second-in-command on the sloop Vostok is, as the accounts by Simonov and Novosil'skiy indicate, Zavadovskiy. The current spelling for the island, Zavodovski, resulted from an earlier system of transliteration of the Russian name, and has been approved by the US Board on Geographic Names and retained because of usage over a long period of time. Therefore the translation of the accounts of Simonov and Novosil'skiy uses the same name for the individual and the island because they considered it the same at the time of writing. Debenham's translation, on the other hand, incorrectly applies the same transliteration to the name of the individual as to the island. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 11:40, 9 December 2023 (UTC)