Wessel Islands
The Wessel Islands is a group of uninhabited islands in the Northern Territory of Australia. They extend in a more or less straight line from Buckingham Bay and the Napier Peninsula of Arnhem Land, and Elcho Island, to the northeast. Marchinbar Island is the largest of the group.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Wessel Islands
- Type: Archipelago
- Description: group of islands of the Northern Territory, Australia
- Categories: island group, locality, and landform
- Location: East Arnhem Region, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-11.5° or 11° 30′ southLongitude
136.5° or 136° 30′ eastOpen location code
5QWRGG22+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 11234035896OpenStreetMap feature
place=archipelagoGeoNames ID
2058668Wikidata ID
Q743843
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Swedish—“Wessel Islands” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Islles Wessel”
- Cebuano: “Wessel Islands (kapuloan sa Awstralya, lat -11,50, long 136,42)”
- Cebuano: “Wessel Islands (kapuloan sa Awstralya, lat -11,60, long 136,33)”
- Cebuano: “Wessel Islands”
- Chinese: “韋塞爾群島”
- Chinese: “韦塞尔群岛”
- French: “îles Wessel”
- French: “Îles Wessel”
- Georgian: “უესელის კუნძულები”
- German: “Wessel Islands”
- German: “Wessel-Inseln”
- German: “Wesselinseln”
- Italian: “Isole Wessel”
- Italian: “Wessel Islands”
- Macedonian: “Весел”
- Macedonian: “Веселови Острови”
- Russian: “Острова Уэссел”
- Russian: “Уэссел”
- Slovak: “Wesselove ostrovy”
- Swedish: “Wessel Islands”
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