Horsburgh Island

Horsburgh Island is an uninhabited islet in the South Keeling Islands atoll of the , Australia. The island spans 1.061 km2, and is part of a marine protected area.
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bantam.

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Home Island is one of only two permanently-inhabited islands of the 26 islands of the South Keeling Islands of the , an Australian external territory in the central-eastern Indian Ocean. is situated 8 km southeast of Horsburgh Island.

Horsburgh Island

Latitude
-12.07695° or 12° 4′ 37″ south
Longitude
96.84021° or 96° 50′ 25″ east
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
Open location code
5MVRWRFR+63
Geo­Names ID
1547371
Wiki­data ID
Q1061922
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Horsburgh Island” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: Islla Horsburgh
  • Cebuano: Horsburgh Island
  • Chinese: 霍斯堡島
  • Croatian: Horsburgh (Kokosovi otoci)
  • Croatian: Horsburgh
  • Dutch: Horsburgh Island
  • French: Horsburgh Island
  • French: Île Horsburgh
  • German: Horsburgh Island
  • German: Pulo Luar
  • German: Pulu Luar
  • Indonesian: Pulau Horsburgh
  • Japanese: ホースバーグ島
  • Kazakh: Хорсберг(арал)
  • Kazakh: Хорсберг
  • Korean: 호스버그섬
  • Malay: Pulau Luar, Kepulauan Cocos
  • Malay: Pulau Luar
  • Russian: Horsburgh Island
  • Russian: Хорсберг
  • Russian: Хорсборо
  • Spanish: Isla Horsburgh
  • Swedish: Horsburgh Island
  • Turkish: Horsburgh Adası
  • Turkish: Horsburgh Island
  • Ukrainian: Горсбург

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About Mapcarta. 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 “Horsburgh Island”. Photo: NASA’s Earth Observatory, CC BY 2.0.