Bell Island
Bell Island is a small island in the south-west of the Franz Josef Land archipelago in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. The island was named by English explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith for its bell-shaped mountain, rising steeply from the island's southern coast with the Barents Sea.
- Island
- …lies at an elevation of around 90 metres (280 feet)
- Description: island in Franz Josef Land, Russia
- Also known as“Ostrov Bel”“Ostrov Bell”“Белл Исланд”“Остров Бел”
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Latitude
80.01277° or 80° 0′ 46″ north
Longitude
49.21559° or 49° 12′ 56″ east
Open location code
CHGF2678+46
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Bell Island” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Islla Bell”
- Azerbaijani: “Bell”
- Cebuano: “Ostrov Bel”
- Cebuano: “Ostrov Bell”
- Chinese: “貝爾島”
- Dutch: “Île Bell”
- French: “Île Bell”
- German: “Bell-Insel”
- Italian: “Isola di Bell”
- Japanese: “ベル島”
- Kotava: “Bell (ewala)”
- Kotava: “Bell”
- Russian: “Белл (остров)”
- Russian: “Белл”
- Russian: “Остров Белл”
- Spanish: “Isla Bell”
- Ukrainian: “Белл”
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