Vostok Subglacial Highlands ( 80°0′S102°0′E / 80.000°S 102.000°E ) 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 Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. [1]
This article incorporates public domain material from "Vostok Subglacial Highlands". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.