North Africa
Egypt
Red Sea

Rocky Island

Rocky Island is a small off-shore of the Red Sea, lying 60–70 kilometres from the coast, out in the of . This tiny uninhabited island gets some shelter from , but also gets fed from north–south currents, which attract lots of pelagic species that feed on or visit the resident marine life.
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  • Type: Islet
  • Description: island in Egypt
  • Also known as: “Rocky Island, Rocky Island”

Rocky Island

Latitude
23.56363° or 23° 33′ 49″ north
Longitude
36.24587° or 36° 14′ 45″ east
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
Open location code
7GMRH67W+F8
Open­Street­Map ID
way 14325574
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­islet
Geo­Names ID
350081
Wiki­data ID
Q12049567
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Satellite Map

Discover Rocky Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“Rocky Island” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جزيرة الصخور”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة روكي”
  • Cebuano: “Rocky Island”
  • Croatian: “Stjenoviti otok (Egipat)”
  • Croatian: “Stjenoviti otok”
  • Czech: “Rocky Island”
  • French: “Rocky Island”
  • German: “Rocky Island”
  • Greek: “Βραχονησίδα του κόλπου Φαούλ”
  • Japanese: “ロッキー島”
  • Swedish: “Rocky Island”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Rocky Island”. Photo: Heshamsamir, CC BY-SA 4.0.