Johnston Atoll
Johnston Atoll is an uninhabited atoll in Polynesia, 717 nautical miles southwest of Hawaii, about one-third of the way to the Marshall Islands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sand Island.
Sand Island
Islet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Sand Island is an islet, which is situated 3 km northeast of Johnston Atoll.
Johnston Atoll
- Type: Atoll
- Also known as: “Gift”, “GIFT WW2”, “Jackknife”, “Johnston Islands”, “Johnston’s Islands”, and “Kalama Atoll”
- Category: landform
- Location: Johnston Atoll, Polynesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
16.72828° or 16° 43′ 42″ northLongitude
-169.53428° or 169° 32′ 3″ westElevation
5 metres (16 feet)IATA airport code
JONOpen location code
728GPFH8+87GeoNames ID
5854928
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Satellite Map
Discover Johnston Atoll from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Johnston Atoll” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Atol Johnston”
- Chinese: “约翰斯顿岛”
- Croatian: “Atol Johnston”
- Czech: “Johnstonův atol”
- Dutch: “Johnston-atol”
- Esperanto: “Jonstonatolo”
- Finnish: “Johnston Atoll”
- French: “Atoll de Johnston”
- German: “Johnston-Atoll”
- Greek: “Ατόλλη Τζόνστον”
- Hebrew: “אטול ג’ונסטון”
- Hungarian: “Johnston-atoll”
- Icelandic: “Johnstoneyja”
- Indonesian: “Atol Johnston”
- Italian: “Atollo Johnston”
- Japanese: “ジョンストン島”
- Korean: “존스턴 섬”
- Latvian: “Džonstona atols”
- Norwegian: “Johnstonatollen”
- Polish: “Johnston”
- Portuguese: “Atol Johnston”
- Russian: “Джонстон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Atol Johnston”
- Slovenian: “Johnston Atoll”
- Spanish: “Atolón Johnston”
- Swedish: “Johnston Island”
- Thai: “จอห์นสตันอะทอลล์”
- Ukrainian: “Джонстон”
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