Bellingshausen Island
Bellingshausen Island is a small, uninhabited volcanic island in the Southern Thule group of the South Sandwich Islands, in the South Atlantic Ocean. It lies approximately 7.6 kilometres northeast of Cook Island and 16 kilometres east of Thule Island.
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Bellingshausen Island
- Island
- Description: one of the most southerly of the South Sandwich Islands, close to Thule Island and Cook Island, and forming part of the Southern Thule group.
- Categories
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-59.41263° or 59° 24′ 46″ south
Longitude
-27.08169° or 27° 4′ 54″ west
Open location code
39GJHWP9+W8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Bellingshausen Island” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Bellinshauzen adası”
- Breton: “Enez Bellingshausen”
- Catalan: “illa Bellingshausen”
- Catalan: “Illa Bellingshausen”
- Cebuano: “Bellingshausen Island (pulo sa South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)”
- Cebuano: “Bellingshausen Island”
- Chinese: “別林斯高晉島”
- Czech: “Bellingshausenův ostrov”
- Dutch: “Bellingshausen Island”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيلينجشاوسين ايسلاند”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيلينجشاوسين”
- Estonian: “Bellingshauseni saar”
- French: “Ile Bellingshausen”
- French: “île Bellingshausen”
- French: “Île Bellingshausen”
- German: “Bellingshausen”
- Hebrew: “בלינגסהאוזן (איי סנדוויץ‘ הדרומיים)”
- Hebrew: “בלינגסהאוזן”
- Italian: “Isola Bellingshausen”
- Japanese: “ベリングシャウゼン島”
- Japanese: “ベリングスハウゼン島”
- Latvian: “Belinshauzena sala”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bellingshausen Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bellingshausen Island”
- Norwegian: “Bellingshausen Island”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Isla Bellingshausen”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bellingshausenīeg”
- Persian: “جزیره بلینگسهاوزن”
- Portuguese: “Ilha bellingshausen”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Bellingshausen”
- Russian: “Беллинсгаузена (остров)”
- Russian: “остров Беллинсгаузена”
- Russian: “Остров Беллинсгаузена”
- Spanish: “Isla Bellingshausen”
- Spanish: “Isla de bellingshausen”
- Spanish: “Isla de Bellingshausen”
- Swedish: “Bellingshausen Island”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Беллінсгаузена”
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