Shannon Island

Shannon Island is a large island in Northeast Greenland National Park in eastern Greenland, to the east of Hochstetter Foreland, with an area of 1,258.5 km2.

Carl Koldewey, Public domain.

Island
…lies at an elevation of 1 metre (3 feet)
Also known as
“Cannon-øya”
“Shannon”
“Shannon Insel”
“Shannon Ø”
“Shannonön”
“Sjannøy”

Shannon Island

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Latitude

75.14641° or 75° 8′ 47″ north

Longitude

-18.40485° or 18° 24′ 18″ west

Open location code

CC734HWW+H3

GeoNames ID

Wikidata ID

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Shannon Island” goes by many names.

Asturian: “Islla Shannon”
Azerbaijani: “Şannon adası”
Catalan: “Illa Shannon”
Catalan: “Shannon Ø”
Cebuano: “Shannon Ø”
Chinese: “香农岛”
Chinese: “香農島”
Danish: “Shannon (ø)”
Danish: “Shannon”
Dutch: “Shannon”
Finnish: “Shannon (saari)”
Finnish: “Shannon”
French: “île Shannon”
French: “Île Shannon”
Galician: “Illa Shannon”
German: “Shannon (Insel)”
German: “Shannon Island”
German: “Shannon Ö”
German: “Shannon Ø”
German: “Shannon-Insel”
German: “Shannon”
Italian: “Isola Shannon”
Italian: “Shannon”
Japanese: “シャノン島”
Latvian: “Šenonas sala”
Polish: “Shannon”
Portuguese: “Ilha Shannon”
Russian: “Шаннон (остров)”
Russian: “Шаннон”
Russian: “Шеннон”
Spanish: “Isla Shannon”
Swedish: “Shannon Ø”
Turkish: “Shannon Adası”
Ukrainian: “Шеннон”

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