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Danger Island

Danger Island is the westernmost and the southernmost island of the Great Chagos Bank, which is the world's largest coral atoll structure, located in the in the Indian Ocean.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in the Great Chagos Bank
  • Also known as: “Danger Island, Great Chagos Bank”

Danger Island

Latitude
-6.38723° or 6° 23′ 14″ south
Longitude
71.2397° or 71° 14′ 23″ east
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
Open location code
6J5HJ67Q+4V
Open­Street­Map ID
way 44036778
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
1282579
Wiki­data ID
Q822031
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Ukrainian—“Danger Island” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “ডেঞ্জার আইল্যান্ড, গ্রেট চ্যাগোস ব্যাঙ্ক”
  • Cebuano: “Danger Island”
  • Chinese: “丹傑島”
  • Chinese: “丹杰岛”
  • Croatian: “Danger (Chagos)”
  • Croatian: “Danger”
  • Danish: “Danger Island”
  • Dutch: “Danger Island”
  • French: “Ile Danger”
  • German: “Danger Island”
  • Greek: “Επικίνδυνη Νήσος”
  • Hebrew: “דיינג’ר (אי)”
  • Italian: “Danger Island”
  • Japanese: “デンジャー・アイランド”
  • Japanese: “デンジャー島”
  • Luxembourgish: “Danger Insel”
  • Persian: “جزیره خطر، بانک بزرگ چاگوس”
  • Spanish: “Isla Danger”
  • Swedish: “Danger Island”
  • Ukrainian: “Денджер”
  • Ukrainian: “Острів ‘Небезпека’”

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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 “Danger Island”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.