Ritter Island
Ritter Island is a small, uninhabited, crescent-shaped volcanic island 100 kilometres north-east of New Guinea, in the Bismarck Sea, situated between Umboi Island and Sakar Island in the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea and close to New Britain island.
Wikimedia, Public domain.- Islet
- …lies at an elevation of around 80 metres (260 feet)
- …was formerly known as “Volcano Island”
- Description: volcanic island in Papua New Guinea
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Latitude
-5.52023° or 5° 31′ 13″ south
Longitude
148.11367° or 148° 6′ 49″ east
Open location code
6R6CF4H7+WF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Western Panjabi—“Ritter Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Ritter Island”
- Chinese: “里特尔岛”
- Chinese: “里特爾島”
- Dutch: “Ritter Island”
- Finnish: “Ritter Island”
- Finnish: “Ritterinsaari”
- Finnish: “Rittersaari”
- French: “Île Ritter”
- French: “Ritter Island”
- French: “Ritter”
- German: “Ritter-Insel”
- Greek: “Ρίτερ”
- Hungarian: “Ritter-sziget”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Ritter”
- Italian: “Ritter”
- Japanese: “リッター島”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Ritter”
- Spanish: “Isla Ritter”
- Western Panjabi: “رٹر جزیرہ”
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