Islands
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands

Visokoi Island

Visokoi Island is an uninhabited volcanic island and one the three that constitute a subgroup of the South Sandwich Islands, in the Southern Ocean.
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Photo: NASA, Public domain.
  • Type: Island
  • Description: island
  • Also known as: “Thorson Island”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Hodson and Shamrock Hill.

Volcano
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
is an ice-covered stratovolcano and the highest point on Visokoi Island, South Sandwich Islands. It might have erupted in 1830 and 1930, and the summit usually steams.

Volcano
Visokoi Island is an uninhabited volcanic island and one the three that constitute a subgroup of the South Sandwich Islands, in the Southern Ocean.

Visokoi Island

Latitude
-56.70664° or 56° 42′ 24″ south
Longitude
-27.1946° or 27° 11′ 41″ west
Elevation
122 metres (400 feet)
Open location code
39MJ7RV4+85
Open­Street­Map ID
way 229914190
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
3426237
Wiki­data ID
Q1641065
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Satellite Map

Discover Visokoi Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Visokoi Island” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Vısoki adası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vısokiy adası”
  • Breton: “Enez Visokoi”
  • Catalan: “illa Visokoi”
  • Catalan: “Illa Visokoi”
  • Cebuano: “Visokoi Island”
  • Chinese: “維索科伊島”
  • Chinese: “维索科伊岛”
  • Dutch: “Visokoi Eiland”
  • Dutch: “Visokoi-eiland”
  • French: “Ile Visokoi”
  • French: “île Visokoi”
  • French: “Île Visokoi”
  • German: “Mount Hodson”
  • German: “Visokoi Island”
  • Italian: “Isola di Visokoi”
  • Italian: “isola Visokoi”
  • Japanese: “ビソコイ島”
  • Japanese: “ワーディー岬”
  • Latvian: “Visokija”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Visokoi Island”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Visokoi Island”
  • Norwegian: “Visokoi Island”
  • Norwegian: “Visokoiøya”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Visokoi-īeg”
  • Persian: “جزیره ویسوکوی”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Visokoi”
  • Russian: “Высокий”
  • Spanish: “Isla Visokoi”
  • Spanish: “Visokoi”
  • Swedish: “Visokoi Island”
  • Turkish: “Visokoi Adası”
  • Ukrainian: “Високий (острів, Південні Сандвічеві острови)”
  • Ukrainian: “Високий”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Visokoi Island”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.