Beauchene Island
Beauchene Island is the southernmost of the Falkland Islands, lying about 54 kilometres south of Porpoise Point in Lafonia. It was discovered in 1701 by Jacques Gouin de Beauchêne, after whom it was named.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Island
- …is also known as “Beauchêne”
- Description: island in the Falkland Islands
Beauchene Island
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Latitude
-52.90521° or 52° 54′ 19″ south
Longitude
-59.18521° or 59° 11′ 7″ west
Open location code
38V23RV7+WW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“Beauchene Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Beauchêne Island”
- Chinese: “博謝訥島”
- Dutch: “Beauchene eiland”
- Dutch: “Beauchêne Island”
- Dutch: “Beauchene-eiland”
- French: “Ile Beauchene”
- French: “île Beauchêne”
- French: “Île Beauchêne”
- French: “Ile Beauchesne”
- German: “Beauchene Island”
- German: “Isla Beauchêne”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Beauchene Island”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Beauchêne Island”
- Norwegian: “Beauchene Island”
- Russian: “Бошен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Beauchene”
- Spanish: “Beauchene”
- Spanish: “Isla Beauchene”
- Spanish: “isla Beauchêne”
- Spanish: “Isla Beauchêne”
- Swedish: “Beauchêne Island”
- Urdu: “بیوچین آئی لینڈ”
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