Morgan Island
Morgan Island is a small island while also being the largest feature in a group of islands located 1 nautical mile east of Cape Bidlingmaier, off the north side of Heard Island in the Indian Ocean.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Australia
- Also known as: “Morgan Islands”, “Morgan Islet”, and “Morgan Islets”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Black Rock and Gilchrist Beach.
Black Rock
Islet
Black Rock is a small, dark rock lying immediately northwest of Morgan Island and 0.2 nautical miles north of Heard Island. The feature appears to be roughly shown on an 1860 sketch map prepared by Captain H.C.
Gilchrist Beach
Beach
Gilchrist Beach is a rocky beach, 1 nautical mile long, lying west of Compton Glacier on the north side of Heard Island. At its eastern edge, Gilchrist Beach communicates with the sandy Fairchild Beach.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cape Bidlingmaier and Saddle Point.
Cape Bidlingmaier
Locality
Cape Bidlingmaier is a rocky cape at the east side of the entrance to Mechanics Bay, on the north side of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean. The feature appears to have been known to American sealers as Morgan's Point, as shown by Captain H.C.
Saddle Point
Locality
Saddle Point is a rocky point separating Corinthian Bay and Mechanics Bay on the north coast of Heard Island in the Antarctic. The terminus of Challenger Glacier is located at the eastern side of Corinthian Bay, close west to Saddle Point.
Morgan Island
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-53.01779° or 53° 1′ 4″ southLongitude
73.5702° or 73° 34′ 13″ eastElevation
33 metres (108 feet)Open location code
3JRMXHJC+V3OpenStreetMap ID
way 281467592OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
1547296Wikidata ID
Q6911712
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Morgan Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Morgan Island (pulo sa Heard Island and McDonald Islands)”
- Cebuano: “Morgan Island”
- Chinese: “摩根島”
- Croatian: “Morgan”
- Croatian: “Otok Morgan”
- Dutch: “Morgan Island”
- German: “Morgan Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Morgan Island”
- Swedish: “Morgan Island”
- Turkish: “Morgan Adası (II)”
- Turkish: “Morgan Adası”
- Turkish: “Morgan Island”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Offley Crater and Compton Lagoon.
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