Bristol Island
Bristol Island is an uninhabited island in the South Sandwich Islands, an archipelago in the Southern Ocean. The island is almost entirely surrounded by ice cliffs and largely covered with ice.
NASA, Public domain.- Island
- …lies at an elevation of around 350 metres (1,140 feet)
- Description: island in the South Sandwich Islands
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Mount Sourabaya
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Bristol Island
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Latitude
-59.01392° or 59° 0′ 50″ south
Longitude
-26.53456° or 26° 32′ 4″ west
Open location code
39GMXFP8+C5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural = coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place = island
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Bristol Island” goes by many names.
Bristol adasıAzerbaijani
Enez BristolBreton
Illa BristolCatalan
Bristol IslandCebuano
Bristol Island (pulo sa South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)Cebuano
布里斯托爾島Chinese
BristolCzech
Bristol IslandDutch
בריסטול (אי)Hebrew
Bristol IslandItalian
Isola BristolItalian
Isola di BristolItalian
ブリストル島Japanese
Bristola salaLatvian
Bristol IslandNorwegian
BristoløyaNorwegian
Bristol IslandNorwegian Bokmål
Bristol IslandNorwegian Nynorsk
Brycgstōw ĪegOld English (ca. 450-1100)
جزیره بریستولPersian
БристолRussian
остров БристолRussian
Bristol IslandSwedish
БристольUkrainian
Бристоль (острів)Ukrainian
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