Kennedy Island
Kennedy Island, is a 1.17 hectares, uninhabited island in Solomon Islands that was named after John F. Kennedy, following an incident involving Kennedy during his World War II naval career.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nash Belarus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Islet
- Description: small island in Western Province, Solomon Islands
- Also known as: “Plum Pudding Island”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gizo Government Station.
Gizo Government Station
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Gizo is the capital of the Western Province in Solomon Islands. With a population of 7,177, it is the third largest town in the country. It is situated on Ghizo Island approximately 380 kilometres west-northwest of the capital, Honiara, and is just southwest of the larger island of Kolombangara. Gizo Government Station is situated 7 km west of Kennedy Island.
Kennedy Island
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Solomon Islands, Melanesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-8.11286° or 8° 6′ 46″ southLongitude
156.90574° or 156° 54′ 21″ eastOpen location code
6R3RVWP4+V7OpenStreetMap ID
way 237029917OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Kennedy Island” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “islla Kennedy”
- Asturian: “Islla Kennedy”
- Cebuano: “Kasolo Island”
- Chinese: “肯尼迪岛”
- Dutch: “Kennedy Island”
- French: “Kennedy Island”
- German: “Kasolo”
- Italian: “Kennedy Island”
- Japanese: “ケネディ島”
- Persian: “جزیره کندی”
- Russian: “Кеннеди”
- Sinhala: “කෙනඩි දුපත”
- Spanish: “Isla Kennedy”
- Turkish: “Kennedy Adası”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Kennedy Island”. Photo: Nash Belarus, CC BY-SA 3.0.