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Nelsons Island

Nelsons Island or Nelson Island or Île Legour is a small uninhabited island in the Great Chagos Bank, of the in the Indian Ocean. As a protected nature reserve, access to the island is strictly restricted.
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  • Type: Islet
  • Description: uninhabited island in the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean
  • Also known as: “Isle Legour”, “Legour Island”, “Nelson”, “Nelson Island”, and “Nelson’s Island”

Nelsons Island

Latitude
-5.68204° or 5° 40′ 55″ south
Longitude
72.31539° or 72° 18′ 55″ east
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
Open location code
6J6J8898+55
Open­Street­Map ID
way 44038371
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­islet
Geo­Names ID
1281793
Wiki­data ID
Q851483
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Ukrainian—“Nelsons Island” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “নেলসন দ্বীপ”
  • Cebuano: “Nelsons Island”
  • Chinese: “納爾遜島”
  • Chinese: “纳尔逊岛”
  • Croatian: “Nelsons”
  • Dutch: “Nelsons Island”
  • French: “Ile Nelsons”
  • French: “île Nelsons”
  • French: “Île Nelsons”
  • German: “Nelsons Island”
  • Greek: “Νέλσονς Νήσος”
  • Hebrew: “נלסון (אי)”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nelsons Insel”
  • Persian: “جزیره نلسون”
  • Spanish: “Isla Nelsons”
  • Swedish: “Nelsons Island”
  • Ukrainian: “Нельсонс (острів)”
  • Ukrainian: “Нельсонс”

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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 “Nelsons Island”. Photo: maleny steve, CC BY-SA 2.0.