Snares Islands
The Snares Islands, known colloquially as The Snares, is a group of uninhabited islands lying about 200 km south of New Zealand's South Island and to the south-southwest of Stewart Island / Rakiura.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Island
- Description: small group of islands SSW of Stewart Island, New Zealand
- Also known as: “De Snares”, “High Island”, “Las Snares”, “Rocky Island”, “Snares Islands/Tini Heke”, “Snares-eilanden”, “The Snares”, “Tinihēti”, “Снарскія астравы”, “Снэрские острова”, “Тини-Хеке”, and “スネアズ諸島”
Snares Islands
- Categories: archipelago, island group, and landform
- Location: New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-48.03667° or 48° 2′ 12″ south
Longitude
166.55° or 166° 33′ east
Open location code
4V38XH72+82
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Snares Islands” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزر سنار”
- Armenian: “Սներս (կղզեխումբ)”
- Armenian: “Սներս”
- Asturian: “Islles Snares”
- Azerbaijani: “Sners adaları”
- Belarusian: “Архіпелаг Снары”
- Belarusian: “Снары”
- Bulgarian: “Тини Хеке”
- Catalan: “Les Snares”
- Cebuano: “Snares Islands”
- Chinese: “斯奈尔斯群岛”
- Croatian: “Snares”
- Czech: “Ostrovy Snares”
- Czech: “Snares”
- Dutch: “Snareseilanden”
- Esperanto: “Insuloj Snares / Tini Heke”
- Esperanto: “Insuloj Snares/Tini Heke”
- Finnish: “Snaressaaret”
- French: “îles Snares”
- French: “Îles Snares”
- Georgian: “სნარის კუნძულები”
- German: “Snaresinseln”
- Hebrew: “איי סנארס”
- Italian: “Isole Snares”
- Japanese: “スネアーズ諸島”
- Latvian: “Snērsu salas”
- Lithuanian: “Snerso salos”
- Maori: “Tini Heke”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Snaresøyene”
- Norwegian: “Snaresøyene”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Les Snares”
- Polish: “Wyspy Snares”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Snares”
- Russian: “Снарские острова”
- Russian: “Снэрс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Snares”
- Slovenian: “Snares Islands”
- Spanish: “Islas Snares”
- Swedish: “Snareöarna”
- Swedish: “Snaresöarna”
- Turkish: “Snares Adaları”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Snares”
- Western Frisian: “Snareseilannen”
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