Bellingshausen Island
Bellingshausen Island is one of the most southerly islands of the South Sandwich Islands, close to Thule Island and Cook Island, and forming part of the Southern Thule group.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Basilisk Peak.
Basilisk Peak
Peak
Basilisk Peak is, at 255 metres, the highest peak marking the crater rim of Bellingshausen Island, South Sandwich Islands. The name as applied by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971 "marks the aura of this savage cliff which falls abruptly into a deep and steaming crater where the basilisk of legend might properly have his den."…
Bellingshausen Island
- Type: 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: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-59.41263° or 59° 24′ 46″ southLongitude
-27.08169° or 27° 4′ 54″ westOpen location code
39GJHWP9+W8OpenStreetMap ID
way 25291782OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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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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