Wallops Island
Wallops Island is a six-square-mile for rocket launching facilities. The island is used primarily for the Wallops Flight Facility, including the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, although the name also refers to the peninsula area surrounding the island for the purpose of mailing addresses.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in Accomack County, Virginia, United States
- Also known as: “Wallop’s Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wallops Beach and Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Launch Pad 0.
Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Launch Pad 0
Industrial building
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Launch Pad 0, also known as Launch Complex 0, or Launch Area 0, is a launch complex at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia, in the United States. Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Launch Pad 0 is situated 1½ miles southwest of Wallops Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wishart and Atlantic.
Wishart
Hamlet
Wishart is an unincorporated community in Accomack County, Virginia, United States. Wishart is situated 2½ miles northwest of Wallops Island.
Atlantic
Village
Photo: Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Atlantic is a census-designated place in Accomack County, Virginia, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 808. Atlantic is situated 4 miles northwest of Wallops Island.
Temperanceville
Village
Temperanceville is a census-designated place in Accomack County, Virginia, United States. It was first listed as a CDP in 2010. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 308. Temperanceville is situated 5 miles northwest of Wallops Island.
Wallops Island
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and landform
- Location: Accomack, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Wallops Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة والوبس”
- Cebuano: “Wallops Island”
- Chinese: “瓦勒普斯岛”
- Czech: “Wallops Island”
- Dutch: “Wallops Island”
- French: “île de Wallops”
- French: “Île de Wallops”
- German: “Wallops Island”
- Hebrew: “וולופס איילנד”
- Italian: “isola di Wallops”
- Italian: “Isola di Wallops”
- Japanese: “ワロップス島”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Wallops”
- Portuguese: “Wallops Island”
- Slovenian: “Wallops Island”
- Spanish: “Wallops Island”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as The Oaks and Persimmon Point.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include National Aeronautics and Space Administration Wallops Flight Facility and Bogues Bay.
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