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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  • Type: Island
  • Description: atoll of Hawaii
  • Also known as: Bunkers”, “Kauo”, “Laysan”, “Laysen”, “Layson”, “Moller”, and “Moller Island

Laysan Island

Latitude
25.77083° or 25° 46′ 15″ north
Longitude
-171.7375° or 171° 44′ 15″ west
Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)
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
  • Polish: Laysan
  • Portuguese: Laysan
  • Russian: Лайсан
  • Spanish: Laysan
  • Ukrainian: Лайсан
  • Vietnamese: Laysan
  • Xhosa: Laysan

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