It was discovered and mapped by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson, 1911–1914.
It was remapped by the Soviet expedition of 1956, and named by them for Demetri Gorev, a member of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, under Robert Falcon Scott.
[1] This article incorporates public domain material from "Gorev Island".
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