Colom Island
Colom Island is a small island of 143 acres, located about 200 metres from the north-east coast of Menorca. In the past it was used as a pesthouse and later as farmland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Carles garcia-roca, CC BY 2.5 es.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Torre de Rambla.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sa Mesquida and Maó.
Maó
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Maó is the capital city of Menorca. It has a fine natural harbour, one of the best in the Mediterranean, which was why the British made it the capital following their occupation of 1708.
Es Castell
Village
Es Castell is a town of almost 8,000 people at the mouth of the port of Maó in the east of Menorca. The town takes its name from the Castle of San Felipe, which was built to protect the island against attacks by the Turks in the 16th century. Es Castell is situated 9 km south of Colom Island.
Colom Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Spain
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Balearic Islands, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
39.96137° or 39° 57′ 41″ northLongitude
4.27842° or 4° 16′ 42″ eastElevation
18 metres (59 feet)Open location code
8FF6X76H+G9OpenStreetMap ID
way 10315187OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
2519347Wikidata ID
Q3322704
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Colom Island” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Illa d’en Colom”
- Catalan: “Illa de Colom”
- Cebuano: “Isla Colom”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كولوم”
- French: “Îlot de Colom”
- Galician: “Illa d’en Colom”
- Galician: “Illa de Colón”
- German: “Illa d’en Colom”
- Japanese: “クロン島”
- Japanese: “レイ島”
- Romanian: “Insula Colom”
- Spanish: “Illa d’en Colom”
- Spanish: “Isla de Colom”
- Spanish: “Isla de Colon”
- Spanish: “Isla de Colón”
- Swedish: “Illa d’en Colom”
- Swedish: “Isla Colom”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as es Grau and Marina del Comte.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Basílica paleocristiana and Narnia.
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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 “Colom Island”. Photo: Carles garcia-roca, CC BY 2.5 es.