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St Paul’s Island

St Paul's Island, also known as Selmunett, is a small island off Selmun, near the north of the of . St Paul's Island is sometimes split into two islands by a shallow strait, and it is therefore sometimes referred to in the plural as St Paul's Islands.
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  • Type: Islet
  • Description: island
  • Also known as: “Ghezzejjer Selmunet”, “Gzeier Island”, “Gzeir”, “Gzejjer Selmunett”, “Isola di San Paolo”, “Saint Paul’s Island”, “Saint Paulls Island”, “Selmunet”, and “St. Paul’s Island”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mistra Battery and Fort Campbell.

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, formerly also known as Despirasse Battery, is an artillery battery in Mistra Bay, , . It was built by the Order of Saint John in the 18th century as one of a series of coastal fortifications around the coasts of the Maltese Islands.

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, also known locally as Il-Fortizza ta' Selmun, is a former fort in , Malta. It was built by the British during 1937 and 1938. It is notable as the most important fortification north of the , and the last major fortification to be built in Malta.

Public aquarium
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The is the largest aquarium in . It is located in , in the northern part of the , and it hosts more than 175 different species of various animals, including fish, mollusca, reptiles and insects.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Qawra and St. Paul’s Bay.

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is a coastal town on Malta, in the region of St. Paul's Bay which consists of several small towns. The town is sandwiched between directly to the south-west and Naxxar to the south-east on the other side of the bay.

Town
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Saint Paul's Bay is a town located on the northeast coast of in the . It is a major residential and commercial area and a centre for shopping, bars, dining, and café life.

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is a coastal town on , in the region of St. Paul's Bay which consists of several small towns. The town is sandwiched between Burmarrad to the south, to the east and St. Paul's Bay to the east.

St Paul’s Island

Latitude
35.96569° or 35° 57′ 57″ north
Longitude
14.40314° or 14° 24′ 11″ east
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
Open location code
8F7PXC83+77
Open­Street­Map ID
way 10365736
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­islet
Geo­Names ID
2562508
Wiki­data ID
Q755984
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“St Paul’s Island” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جزيرة سانت بول”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sent-Pols adası”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Святога Паўла”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Сьвятога Паўла”
  • Belarusian: “Выспа Сьвятога Паўла”
  • Belarusian: “Селмунет”
  • Bosnian: “Ostrvo Svetog Pavla”
  • Cebuano: “Gżejjer Selmunett”
  • Czech: “Ostrov Svatého Pavla”
  • Danish: “St Paul’s Island”
  • Danish: “St Paul’s Islands”
  • Dutch: “Islands of St. Paul”
  • Dutch: “Saint Paul’s Islands”
  • Esperanto: “Insulo de Sankta Paŭlo”
  • Finnish: “Pyhän Paavalin saari”
  • French: “Îles de Saint-Paul”
  • French: “Îles Saint-Paul”
  • Georgian: “წმინდა პავლეს კუნძული”
  • German: “Saint Paul’s Islands”
  • German: “St. Paul’s Islands”
  • German: “St. Pauls Island”
  • Greek: “Νησί του Αγίου Παύλου”
  • Greek: “Νησιά του Αγίου Παύλου”
  • Greek: “Σελμουνέτ”
  • Hebrew: “איי סנט פול”
  • Hungarian: “Szent Pál-sziget”
  • Italian: “isole di San Paolo”
  • Italian: “Isole di San Paolo”
  • Korean: “산파울섬”
  • Latvian: “Svētā Pāvila sala”
  • Limburgan: “St. Paul’seiland”
  • Limburgan: “St. Paulseiland”
  • Lithuanian: “Šv. Pauliaus sala”
  • Luxembourgish: “St. Paul’s Islands”
  • Luxembourgish: “St. Pauls Island”
  • Maltese: “Gżejjer ta’ San Pawl”
  • Maltese: “Il-Gżejjer ta‘ San Pawl”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “St. Paulusøyene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Il-Gżejjer ta‘ San Pawl”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “St. Paul’s Island”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “St. Paulus-øya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “St. Paulusøya”
  • Norwegian: “St. Paulusøyene”
  • Polish: “Wyspy Świętego Pawła”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de São Paulo”
  • Portuguese: “Selmunett”
  • Russian: “Острова Святого Павла”
  • Russian: “Селмунетт”
  • Russian: “Сент-Полс”
  • Serbian: “Ostrvo Svetog Pavla”
  • Serbian: “Острво Светог Павла”
  • Sicilian: “Isuli di San Paulu”
  • Sicilian: “Ìsuli di San Paulu”
  • Slovenian: “Otok svetega Pavla”
  • Spanish: “Isla de San Pablo”
  • Spanish: “Islas de San Pablo”
  • Swedish: “Gżejjer Selmunett”
  • Ukrainian: “Сент-Полс”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ سینٹ پال”
  • Uzbek: “Avliyo Paul oroli”

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