Sapelo Island
Sapelo Island is a state-protected barrier island located in McIntosh County, Georgia. The island is accessible only by boat; the primary ferry comes from the Sapelo Island Visitors Center in McIntosh County, Georgia, a seven-mile, twenty-minute trip.Sapelo Island
- Type: Island
- Also known as: “Sapela Island”, “Sapello Island”, “Sapeloe Island”, “Sapila Island”, “Sapola Island”, and “Zapala Island”
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: McIntosh, Georgia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
31.47745° or 31° 28′ 39″ north
Longitude
-81.24176° or 81° 14′ 30″ west
Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)
Open location code
863WFQG5+X7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
GeoNames ID
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Spanish—“Sapelo Island” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Sapelo Island”
- Cebuano: “Sapelo Island”
- Dutch: “Sapelo Island”
- French: “île de Sapelo”
- Haitian: “Sapelo Island”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Sapelo”
- Japanese: “サペロ島”
- Spanish: “Isla Sapelo”
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