Bald Island
Bald Island is an uninhabited island in the Weddell Island Group of the Falkland Islands. It is located off Beacon Point, on the west side of the entrance to Chatham Harbour.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Islet
- Description: island in the Falkland Islands
- Also known as: “Bald Island, Weddell Island”, “Isla Bald”, and “Isla de la Baliza”
Bald Island
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Falkland Islands, South America
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Latitude
-51.77661° or 51° 46′ 36″ southLongitude
-60.96544° or 60° 57′ 56″ westElevation
82 feet (25 metres)Open location code
37WX62FM+9ROpenStreetMap ID
way 8012094OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=isletGeoNames ID
3832032Wikidata ID
Q15848326
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Bald Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Bald Island (pulo sa Kapupud-ang Falkland)”
- Cebuano: “Bald Island”
- Dutch: “Bald Island, Weddell Island”
- Dutch: “Bald Island”
- French: “île Bald (îles Malouines)”
- French: “île Bald”
- French: “Île Bald”
- Spanish: “Isla Pelada (San José)”
- Spanish: “Isla Pelada”
- Swedish: “Bald Island”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bald Island”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.