Turtle Islet
"Turtle Island" is a name used by some Indigenous peoples of the Americas to refer to Earth or North America. It is also commonly used among both Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists for Indigenous rights.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Island
- Description: traditional name for (North) America among some indigenous groups
- Also known as: “Turtle Island”
Turtle Islet
- Categories: continent, part of the world, synonym, World Turtle, human world, and landform
- Location: Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Turkish—“Turtle Islet” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կրիայի կղզի”
- Catalan: “Illa de la Tortuga”
- Chinese: “靈龜島”
- Dutch: “Schildpadeiland”
- Dutch: “Turtle Island”
- French: “Île de la Tortue”
- French: “Turtle Island”
- Irish: “Oileán an Turtair”
- Japanese: “タートル・アイランド”
- Russian: “Остров Черепахи”
- Spanish: “Isla de la Tortuga”
- Spanish: “Tortuga”
- Swedish: “Sköldpaddsön”
- Tatar: “Ташбака утравы”
- Turkish: “Kaplumbağa Adası (Yerli Amerikalı kültürü)”
- Turkish: “Kaplumbağa Adası”
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