Portsea Island
Portsea Island is a flat and low-lying natural island 24.5 square kilometres in area, just off the southern coast of Hampshire in England. The island contains the majority of the city of Portsmouth.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peninsula
- Description: island
- Also known as: “Portsea” and “Portsea Island, Hampshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fratton Park and HMS Victory.
Fratton Park
Stadium
Photo: Thom32, Public domain.
Fratton Park is a football ground in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, and is the home of Portsmouth Football Club. Fratton Park's location on Portsea Island is unique in English professional football, as it is the only professional English football ground not located on the mainland of Great Britain.
HMS Victory
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate wooden sailing ship of the line. With 248 years of service as of 2026, she is the world's oldest naval vessel still in commission.
HMS Warrior
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy in 1859–1861. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior and her sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response to France's launching in 1859 of the first ocean-going ironclad warship, the wooden-hulled Gloire.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gosport and Southsea.
Gosport
Photo: Julian Colander, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gosport is a town in Hampshire, a short water ride away from Portsmouth. Although not a traditional destination, it does have some attractions if you are interested in maritime history.
Southsea
Suburb
Southsea is a seaside resort and a geographic area of Portsmouth, Portsea Island in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, England. Southsea is located 1.8 miles to the south of Portsmouth's inner city-centre.
Copnor
Suburb
Photo: Basher Eyre, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Copnor is an area of Portsmouth, England, located on the eastern side of Portsea Island. The population of Copnor Ward at the 2011 Census was 13,608. As Copenore, it was one of the three villages listed as being on Portsea Island in the Domesday Book.
Portsea Island
- Categories: island and landform
- Location: Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Portsea Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Portsea Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بورتسي (جزيرة)”
- Arabic: “بورتسي”
- Basque: “Portsea uhartea”
- Bengali: “পোর্টসি দ্বীপ”
- Breton: “Portsea”
- Cebuano: “Portsea Island”
- Chinese: “波托西岛”
- Chinese: “波托西島”
- Czech: “Portsea Island”
- Dutch: “Portsea Island”
- Egyptian Arabic: “پورتسى ايلاند”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Portsea”
- French: “Île de Portsea”
- French: “Portsea”
- Galician: “Illa Portsea”
- Hebrew: “פורטסי”
- Italian: “Isola di Portsea”
- Japanese: “ポートシー島”
- Latin: “Insula Portsea”
- Latin: “Portsea Island”
- Latin: “Portsea”
- Latin: “Portus insula”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Portsea Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Portsea Island”
- Ossetian: “Портси”
- Polish: “Portsea (wyspa)”
- Polish: “Portsea”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Portsea”
- Russian: “Портси”
- Serbian: “Портси”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Portsea Island”
- Swedish: “Portsea Island”
- Turkish: “Portsea Adası”
- Welsh: “Portsea Island”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Fratton and Kingston.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St Mary’s Hospital and Fratton railway station.
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