Fairway Rock
Fairway Rock is a small islet with mostly vertical rock faces in the Bering Strait, located southeast of the Diomede Islands and west of Alaska's Cape Prince of Wales.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in the United States of America
- Also known as: “Faraway Rock”, “Farway Rock”, “Flyaway Rock”, “Okivaki”, “Oo-ghe-eyak”, “Oo-ghee-ak”, “Ookeeok”, and “Ugiyak”
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Fairway Rock
- Category: landform
- Location: Nome, Alaska, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Fairway Rock” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “صخرة فيرواي”
- Cebuano: “Fairway Rock”
- Dutch: “Fairway Rock”
- Finnish: “Fairway Rock”
- French: “Fairway Rock”
- German: “Fairway Rock”
- Hebrew: “סלע פיירווי”
- Hungarian: “Fairway Rock”
- Japanese: “フェアウェイ・ロック”
- Spanish: “Roca Fairway”
- Swedish: “Fairwayklippan”
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