It rises to 200 meters (656 feet) and is located 12 miles east of Mikhaylov Island.

It was discovered by the Soviet expedition of 1956 which named it for Ivan Zavadovsky [ru], second in command of the Imperial Russian Navy sloop-of-war Vostok in the Bellingshausen expedition in 1819–21.

A temporary field station named Druzhba was opened from May 20 to August 6 in 1960 on the island by the Soviet Union to study meteorological conditions.

[1] This article incorporates public domain material from "Zavadovskiy Island".

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