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.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in the South Sandwich Islands
  • Also known as: “Brycgstow Ieg”, “Brycgstōw Īeg”, “Ile Bristol”, “Ilha bristol”, “Isla Blanca (Islas Sandwich del Sur)”, and “Isola Bristol”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Mount Sourabaya and Mount Darnley.

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Bristol Island

Latitude
-59.01392° or 59° 0′ 50″ south
Longitude
-26.53456° or 26° 32′ 4″ west
Elevation
347 metres (1,138 feet)
Open location code
39GMXFP8+C5
Open­Street­Map ID
way 229914732
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
3426567
Wiki­data ID
Q917948
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In Other Languages

From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Bristol Island” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Bristol adası”
  • Breton: “Enez Bristol”
  • Catalan: “illa Bristol”
  • Catalan: “Illa Bristol”
  • Cebuano: “Bristol Island (pulo sa South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)”
  • Cebuano: “Bristol Island”
  • Chinese: “布里斯托爾島”
  • Czech: “Bristol”
  • Dutch: “Bristol Island”
  • French: “île Bristol”
  • French: “Île Bristol”
  • German: “Bristol Island”
  • Hebrew: “בריסטול (אי)”
  • Italian: “isola di Bristol”
  • Italian: “Isola di Bristol”
  • Japanese: “ブリストル島”
  • Latvian: “Bristola sala”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bristol Island”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bristol Island”
  • Norwegian: “Bristol Island”
  • Norwegian: “Bristoløya”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Brycgstōwīeg”
  • Persian: “جزیره بریستول”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Bristol”
  • Russian: “Бристол”
  • Russian: “остров Бристол”
  • Spanish: “Isla Blanca (Sandwich del Sur)”
  • Spanish: “Isla Blanco”
  • Swedish: “Bristol Island”
  • Ukrainian: “Бристоль (острів)”
  • Ukrainian: “Бристоль”

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