Nansen Island
Nansen Island, is a long and narrow island in the coast of the Kara Sea. Its length is 21 km and its average width about 2.5 km. This island is located in an area of skerries right off the western coast of the Taymyr Peninsula.
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Latitude
76.19056° or 76° 11′ 26″ north
Longitude
94.86722° or 94° 52′ 2″ east
Open location code
CM8P5VR8+6V
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Swedish—“Nansen Island” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Nansen adası”
- Cebuano: “Ostrov Nansena”
- Chinese: “南森島”
- Dutch: “Nansen”
- French: “Île Nansen (mer de Kara)”
- French: “Île Nansen”
- Italian: “Isola di Nansen”
- Japanese: “ナンセン島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nansenøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nansenøya i Karahavet”
- Norwegian: “Nansenøya”
- Russian: “Остров Нансена”
- Spanish: “Isla Nansen”
- Swedish: “Nansenön”
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