Laysan Island

Laysan is one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, located 808 nautical miles northwest of . It has one land mass of 1,016 acres, about 1 by 1+1⁄2 miles in size.
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  • Island
  • …lies at an elevation of 3 metres (10 feet)
  • Description: atoll of Hawaii
  • Also known as
    “Bunkers”
    “Kauo”
    “Laysan”
    “Laysen”
    “Layson”
    “Moller”
    “Moller Island”

Laysan Island

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Latitude
25.77083° or 25° 46′ 15″ north
Longitude
-171.7375° or 171° 44′ 15″ west
Open location code
72QCQ7C6+8X
Geo­Names ID
5850186
Wiki­data ID
Q34720

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Xhosa—“Laysan Island” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Laysan”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Лайсан”
  • Belarusian: “Лайсан”
  • Bulgarian: “Лайсан”
  • Catalan: “Laysan”
  • Cebuano: “Laysan Island”
  • Chinese: “莱桑岛”
  • Chinese: “雷仙岛”
  • Chinese: “雷仙島”
  • Czech: “Laysan”
  • Dutch: “Laysan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لايسان”
  • Esperanto: “Lajsano”
  • French: “Laysan”
  • Galician: “Laysan”
  • German: “Kauo”
  • German: “Kauō”
  • German: “Laysan-Insel”
  • German: “Laysan”
  • German: “Laysaninsel”
  • Hawaiian: “Kauō”
  • Hebrew: “לאייסאן”
  • Hungarian: “Laysan”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Laysan”
  • Italian: “Laysan”
  • Japanese: “レイサン島”
  • Korean: “라이산”
  • Korean: “라이산섬”
  • Lithuanian: “Laisanas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Laysan”
  • Persian: “لایسان”
  • Polish: “Laysan”
  • Portuguese: “Laysan”
  • Russian: “Лайсан”
  • Spanish: “Laysan”
  • Ukrainian: “Лайсан”
  • Vietnamese: “Laysan”
  • Xhosa: “Laysan”

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