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Vostok (sloop-of-war)
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Vostok (sloop-of-war)
Vostok
was a 28-gun
sloop-of-war
of the
Imperial Russian Navy
, the lead ship of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition in 1819—1821, during which
Faddey Bellingshausen
(commander of the ship) and
Mikhail Lazarev
(commanding
Mirny
, the second ship)
circumnavigated
the globe, discovered the continent of
Antarctica
and twice circumnavigated it, and discovered a number of islands and archipelagos in the
Southern Ocean
and the
Pacific
.
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