Pheasant Island

Pheasant Island is an uninhabited river island located in the river, located between and , whose administration alternates between the two nations every six months.
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  • Type: Islet
  • Description: condominium ruled alternately by France and Spain
  • Also known as: “Ile de Fasans”, “Ile de l’hopital”, “Île de l’hôpital”, “Ile de la Conference”, “Ile de la Conférence”, “Île de la Conférence”, “Ile des Faisans”, “Île des Faisans”, “Isla de los Faisanes”, and “Konpantzia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Behobia International Bridge and Église Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur de Béhobie.

Bridge
Photo: Zarateman, CC0.

Church
Photo: Peter17, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a church.

Railway station
Photo: Remontees, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hendaye station is a railway station in , , on the Bordeaux-Irun and Madrid-Hendaye lines. The station is served by TGV high speed trains, Intercités de nuit night trains, Intercités long distance and TER local services operated by the , Trenhotel and Arco services operated by RENFE, and EuskoTren services.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Behobia and Irun.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Photo: Angelyoldi, Public domain.
is a town in , at the border of France. It has about 61,000 inhabitants and lies on the Northern Way of the Camino de Santiago.

Village
Photo: Ksarasola, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village and a commune in the department in southwestern . It is part of the traditional Basque province of Labourd.

Pheasant Island

Latitude
43.34284° or 43° 20′ 34″ north
Longitude
-1.76553° or 1° 45′ 56″ west
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
Open location code
8CMW86VM+4Q
Open­Street­Map ID
way 177945817
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­islet
Geo­Names ID
3023932
Wiki­data ID
Q373767
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Pheasant Island” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الفزان”
  • Armenian: “Ֆաիսանես”
  • Assamese: “ফেজেণ্ট দ্বীপ”
  • Basque: “Faisaien uhartea”
  • Basque: “Intzura”
  • Basque: “Konferentzia”
  • Basque: “Konpantzia”
  • Basque: “Ospitalearen irla”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Бажанаў”
  • Bengali: “ফেজ্যান্ট দ্বীপ”
  • Bulgarian: “Остров на фазаните”
  • Catalan: “illa dels Faisans”
  • Catalan: “Illa dels Faisans”
  • Cebuano: “Isla de los Faisanes”
  • Central Kurdish: “دوورگەی فیزانت”
  • Chinese: “費桑島”
  • Chinese: “雉島”
  • Czech: “Bažantí ostrov”
  • Dagbani: “Faisans”
  • Danish: “Fasanøen”
  • Dutch: “Fazanteneiland”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزيرة الفزان”
  • Esperanto: “Insulo de la Fazanoj”
  • Estonian: “Konpantzia”
  • Finnish: “Konpantzia”
  • French: “Île de l’hôpital”
  • French: “île de la Conférence”
  • French: “île des Faisans”
  • French: “Île des Faisans”
  • French: “Konpantzia”
  • Galician: “Illa dos Faisáns”
  • German: “Fasaneninsel”
  • German: “Île de l’Hôpital”
  • German: “Île de la Conférence”
  • German: “Île des Faisans”
  • German: “Isla de los Faisanes”
  • German: “Konferenzinsel”
  • Greek: “Νησί των Φασιανών”
  • Greek: “Νήσος των Φασιανών”
  • Hebrew: “אי הפסיון”
  • Hebrew: “אי הפסיונים”
  • Hungarian: “Fácán-sziget”
  • Hungarian: “Fácánok szigete”
  • Hungarian: “Île des Faisans”
  • Hungarian: “Isla de Los Faisanes”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Faisans”
  • Italian: “isola dei Fagiani”
  • Italian: “Isola dei Fagiani”
  • Japanese: “フェザント島”
  • Korean: “꿩섬”
  • Korean: “파이사네스섬”
  • Korean: “페상섬”
  • Luxembourgish: “Fasaneninsel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fasanøya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fasanøya”
  • Norwegian: “Fasanøya”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Konpantzia”
  • Persian: “پیزانت”
  • Polish: “Faisans”
  • Polish: “Île des Faisans”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha dos Faisões”
  • Russian: “Остров Фазанов”
  • Spanish: “Isla de los Faisanes”
  • Swedish: “Fasanön”
  • Turkish: “Faisans Adası”
  • Ukrainian: “Острів Фазанів”
  • Vietnamese: “đảo Faisans”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Faisans”
  • Vietnamese: “đảo Pheasant”

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