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Vostok Subglacial Highlands
Vostok Subglacial Highlands
is a line of subglacial highlands trending NNW-SSE and forming an east extension of
Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains
. The feature was delineated by the
Scott Polar Research Institute
(SPRI)-
National Science Foundation
(NSF)-
Technical University of Denmark
(TUD) airborne radio echo sounding program, 1967–79, and named after
Vostok
, the flagship of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition, 1819-21 led by
Faddey Bellingshausen
.
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