Everything about Vostok Island totally explained
Vostok Island also known as
Staver Island, is an uninhabited coral island in the central
Pacific Ocean, part of the
Line Islands belonging to
Kiribati. Other names for the island were Anne Island, Bostock Island, Leavitts Island, Reaper Island, Staver Island, Vostock Island, Wostock Island or Wostok Island.
First sighted in
1820 by the
Russian explorer
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, who named the island for his ship ("Vostok" means "East" in Russian). Only 1.5 kilometers in length (0.24 km²) and approximately triangular in shape, it rises to a height of about 5 meters above sea level, with a dense thicket of
Pisonia trees covering the central portion of the island. Vostok was claimed under the
Guano Act of 1856, but was never mined for phosphate.
Vostok Island is conserved as the
Vostok Island Wildlife Sanctuary, protecting important seabird breeding colonies such as the
Red-footed Booby (Sula sula),
Great Frigatebird (Fregata minor),
Lesser Frigatebird (F. ariel),
Black Noddy (Anous minutus) and
White Tern (Gygis alba).
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