Chamisso Island
Chamisso Island is a small island in Kotzebue Sound, Alaska. It is located off Spafarief Bay at the mouth of Eschscholtz Bay, just south of the Choris Peninsula.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in the United States of America
- Also known as: “E-ow-ick” and “Iguagvik”
- Historically known as: “Chamise Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Puffin Island.
Puffin Island
Islet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Puffin Island is a rocky islet in the Kotzebue Sound, Alaska. It is located off Spafarief Bay at the mouth of Eschscholtz Bay, just south of the Choris Peninsula, in the Northwest Arctic Borough at.
Chamisso Island
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Northwest Arctic, Alaska, United States, North America
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Latitude
66.21818° or 66° 13′ 5″ northLongitude
-161.8253° or 161° 49′ 31″ westElevation
230 feet (70 metres)Open location code
92RW659F+7VOpenStreetMap ID
way 21069601OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
5858952Wikidata ID
Q595925
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Spanish—“Chamisso Island” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Şamisso”
- Cebuano: “Chamisso Island”
- Dutch: “Chamisso Island”
- German: “Chamisso Island”
- Hungarian: “Chamisso-sziget”
- Italian: “isola di Chamisso”
- Italian: “Isola di Chamisso”
- Latin: “insula Chamissonis”
- Russian: “Шамиссо”
- Spanish: “Isla Chamisso”
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