Gough Island
Gough Island, also known historically as Gonçalo Álvares, is a rugged volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is a dependency of Tristan da Cunha and part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha.- Type: Island
- Description: island in the South Atlantic
- Also known as: “Diego Alvares”, “Diego Alvarez”, “Diego Álvarez”, “Djego Alvaresa sala”, “Gonçalo Álvares”, “Gough (eiland)”, “Gough island”, “Gough-Insulo”, “Gough’s Island”, “Goughinsel”, “Ile de Gough”, “Île de Gough”, “Ile Gough”, “Ilha de Gough”, “Ilha gough”, “Ilhas Gough e Inacessível”, “Illa de Gough”, “Illa Diego Álvarez”, “Illa Gonçalo Álvares”, “Isla de Gonçalo Álvares”, “Islla de Diego Álvarez”, “востраў Гоф”, “Гоф (востраў)”, “Диего Алварес”, “Диего-Альварес”, “Острів Гох”, “Остров Гоф”, “Остров Диего-Альварес”, and “גוף איילנד”
Gough Island
Latitude
-40.30571° or 40° 18′ 21″ south
Longitude
-9.99687° or 9° 59′ 49″ west
Elevation
1,719 feet (524 metres)
Open location code
4CFGM2V3+P7
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Gough Island” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Gougheiland”
- Arabic: “جزيرة غوف”
- Armenian: “Գոֆ”
- Asturian: “Islla de Gough”
- Azerbaijani: “Qof”
- Basque: “Gough uhartea”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Гоф”
- Belarusian: “Гоф”
- Breton: “Enez Gough”
- Catalan: “illa Gough”
- Catalan: “Illa Gough”
- Cebuano: “Gough Island”
- Chinese: “戈夫岛”
- Chinese: “果夫島”
- Croatian: “Gough”
- Czech: “Goughův ostrov”
- Dagbani: “Gough Island”
- Danish: “Gough Island”
- Dutch: “Gough”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره جوف”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Gough”
- Finnish: “Gough”
- French: “île Gough”
- French: “Île Gough”
- Georgian: “გოფი”
- German: “Gough-Insel”
- Greek: “Νήσος Γκαφ”
- Hausa: “Yanayin tsibirin Gough”
- Hebrew: “האי גוף”
- Hungarian: “Gough-sziget”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Gough”
- Interlingua: “Insula de Gough”
- Italian: “isola Gough”
- Italian: “Isola Gough”
- Japanese: “ゴフ島”
- Korean: “고프섬”
- Latvian: “Gofa sala”
- Lithuanian: “Gofo sala”
- Macedonian: “Гоф”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gough Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Goughøya”
- Norwegian: “Gough Island”
- Persian: “جزیره گوف”
- Polish: “Gough”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Gonçalo Álvares”
- Romanian: “Insula Gough”
- Russian: “Гоф”
- Slovak: “Goughov ostrov”
- Spanish: “Isla de Diego Álvarez”
- Spanish: “Isla de Gough”
- Spanish: “Isla Gough”
- Swedish: “Gough Island”
- Tamil: “காஃப் தீவு”
- Turkish: “Gough Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Гоф”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Гоф”
- Upper Sorbian: “Goughowa kupa”
- Urdu: “گف آئی لینڈ”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Gough”
- Wu Chinese: “戈夫島”
- Yue Chinese: “歌賦島”
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Places to explore: West Point and North East Point.
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Highlights: Seal Bay and Tristania Rock.
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