Elephantine
Elephantine is an island on the Nile, forming part of the city of Aswan in Upper Egypt. The archaeological digs on the island became a World Heritage Site in 1979, along with other examples of Upper Egyptian architecture, as part of the "Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in the Nile, Egypt
- Also known as: “Aswān Island”, “Elephantine Island”, “Gezîret Aswân”, “Gezîret Elephantine”, “Jazirat Aswan”, and “Jeb”
- Historically known as: “Abu” and “Yebu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include El Nabatat Island and Aswan Museum.
El Nabatat Island
Islet
Photo: Ovedc, CC BY-SA 4.0.
El Nabatat Island or Kitchener's Island is a small, oval-shaped island in the Nile at Aswan, Egypt. It is less than a kilometer long and its width is less than ½ a kilometer. The Aswan Botanical Garden is located on the island.
Aswan Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Aswan Museum is a museum in Elephantine, located on the south-eastern side of Aswan, Egypt. It was set up in 1912 by the British Egyptologist Cecil Mallaby Firth.
Pyramid of Elefantine
The pyramid of Elephantine is part of a group of seven very similar small step pyramids, along with the pyramids at Edfu South, el-Kula, Naqada, Zawyet el-Maiyitin, Seila, and Sinki.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aswan and Shellal.
Aswan
Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt, some 870 km south of Cairo, just below the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, with a population of 275,000. Aswan is far more relaxed and smaller than Cairo and Luxor.
Shellal
Village
Shellal is a small ancient village on the banks of the Nile, south of Aswan in Upper Egypt. It was the traditional northern frontier of the Nubian region with both the Egyptian Empire and the Roman Empire.
Elephantine
- Categories: river island, locality, and landform
- Location: Aswan Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
24.0911° or 24° 5′ 28″ northLongitude
32.8888° or 32° 53′ 20″ eastElevation
101 metres (331 feet)Open location code
7GPJ3VRQ+CGOpenStreetMap ID
way 5772018OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Elephantine” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إلفنتين”
- Arabic: “جزيرة ألفنتين”
- Arabic: “جزيرة الفنتين”
- Asturian: “Elefantina”
- Basque: “Elefantina”
- Belarusian: “Элефанціна”
- Breton: “Elefantina”
- Catalan: “Elefantina”
- Catalan: “illa Elefantina”
- Cebuano: “Jazīrat Aswān”
- Chinese: “象岛”
- Croatian: “Elefantina”
- Czech: “Elefantina”
- Danish: “Elefantine”
- Dutch: “Elephantine”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الفنتين”
- Esperanto: “Elefantina”
- Estonian: “Assuani saar”
- Estonian: “Aswāni saar”
- Finnish: “Elefantine”
- French: “Éléphantine”
- French: “île Éléphantine”
- French: “Île Éléphantine”
- Galician: “Elefantina”
- German: “Elephantine”
- German: “Gazirat Aswan”
- Greek: “Ελεφαντίνη”
- Hausa: “Elephantine”
- Hebrew: “יב”
- Hungarian: “Elephantiné”
- Indonesian: “Elefantin”
- Italian: “Elefantina”
- Japanese: “エレファンティーヌ島”
- Japanese: “エレファンティネ”
- Japanese: “エレファンティネ島”
- Korean: “엘레판티네섬”
- Latin: “Elephantine”
- Malay: “Elefantin”
- Maori: “Elephantine”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Elefantine”
- Norwegian: “Elefantine”
- Persian: “الفانتین”
- Polish: “Elefantyna”
- Portuguese: “Elefantina”
- Romanian: “Elefantina”
- Russian: “Абу”
- Russian: “Элефантина”
- Serbian: “Елефантина”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Elefantina”
- Slovenian: “Elefantina”
- Spanish: “Elefantina”
- Spanish: “Isla Elefantina”
- Swedish: “Elefantine”
- Tamil: “எலிபென்டைன் தீவு”
- Thai: “เกาะเอลิแฟนไทนี”
- Turkish: “Elefantin”
- Ukrainian: “Елефантина”
- Urdu: “الفانتین”
- Urdu: “الفنطینے”
- Uzbek: “Elefantina”
- Vietnamese: “Elephantine”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Siou and Koti.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Animalia and rest house.
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