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Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Nov-2021 09:56:30 UTC Tagomago
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- Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦
@rysiek Oh, now I get the vostok in Vladivostok. TIL too.

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- Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mastodon.technology)'s status on Friday, 05-Nov-2021 09:56:31 UTC Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦
  
  TIL: There is an island in Kiribati called Vostok ("East" in Russian); and it was first discovered by a Russian explorer called Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_Island
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  1. Vostok Island
    
    Vostok Island is an uninhabited coral island in the central Pacific Ocean, part of the Line Islands belonging to Kiribati. Other names for the island include Anne Island, Bostock Island, Leavitts Island, Reaper Island, Wostock Island or Wostok Island. The island was first sighted in 1820 by the Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, who named the island for his ship Vostok (the name means "East" in Russian). Geography, flora and fauna Vostok covers a land area of 24 hectares (59 acres). Its nearest neighbors are Flint Island, 158 kilometres (98 miles) south-southeast; Caroline Atoll, 230 kilometres (140 miles) to the east; and Penrhyn, 621 kilometres (386 miles) to the west. It is 1.3 kilometres (0.8 miles) in length, and is triangular-shaped.Beaches on the island range between 25 and 30 metres (82 and 98 feet) wide, composed of coral sand and rubble. There is no lagoon or fresh water on the island, and no known freshwater lens. Vostok's major portion is covered with a pure stand of Pisonia...

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