Swains Island
Swains Island, also known as Jennings Island, is a remote coral atoll in the Tokelau volcanic island group in the South Pacific Ocean. Administered as part of American Samoa since 1925, the island is subject to an ongoing territorial dispute between Tokelau and the United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: island with 37 residents
- Description: remote coral atoll of American Samoa, United States of America
- Also known as: “Gente Hermosa Island”, “Island of Swains Island”, “Jenning’s Island”, “Jennings Island”, “Olohega Island”, “Olosega Island”, “Peregrina”, “Quiros Island”, “Swains Island, American Samoa”, and “US Unincorporated Unorganized Territory administered by American Samoa”
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Taulaga and Etena.
Taulaga
Village
Swains Island, also known as Jennings Island, is a remote coral atoll in the Tokelau volcanic island group in the South Pacific Ocean. Administered as part of American Samoa since 1925, the island is subject to an ongoing territorial dispute between Tokelau and the United States.
Etena
Locality
Swains Island, also known as Jennings Island, is a remote coral atoll in the Tokelau volcanic island group in the South Pacific Ocean. Administered as part of American Samoa since 1925, the island is subject to an ongoing territorial dispute between Tokelau and the United States.
Swains Island
- Categories: unorganized atoll of American Samoa and disputed territory
- Location: American Samoa, Polynesia, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Swains Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة سوينز”
- Asturian: “Islla Swains”
- Basque: “Olohega”
- Basque: “Olohenga”
- Basque: “Olosenga”
- Basque: “Swains Island”
- Basque: “Swains Uhartea”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Суэйнс”
- Belarusian: “Суэйнс”
- Catalan: “illa de Swains”
- Catalan: “Illa de Swains”
- Catalan: “Swains”
- Cebuano: “Swains Island”
- Chinese: “斯温斯岛”
- Chinese: “斯溫斯島”
- Croatian: “Swains Island”
- Czech: “Swains Island”
- Danish: “Swainsøen”
- Dutch: “Gente Hermosa”
- Dutch: “Olohega”
- Dutch: “Olosenga”
- Dutch: “Swains Island”
- Dutch: “Swains-eiland”
- Dutch: “Swains”
- Dutch: “Swainseiland”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سواينس ايسلاند”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سواينس”
- Finnish: “Olohega”
- Finnish: “Swains Island”
- Finnish: “Swains”
- French: “Olohega”
- French: “Olosega”
- French: “Swains”
- Galician: “Atol Swains”
- Galician: “Swains”
- Georgian: “სუეინზი”
- German: “Olohega”
- German: “Swains Island”
- German: “Swainsinsel”
- Hebrew: “האי סוואן”
- Hebrew: “האי סוויינז”
- Italian: “isola Swains”
- Italian: “Isola Swains”
- Italian: “Taulaga”
- Japanese: “スウェインズ島”
- Lithuanian: “Sveino sala”
- Macedonian: “Свејнс”
- Malayalam: “Swains Island”
- Malayalam: “ഒലോസേഗ ദ്വീപ്”
- Malayalam: “ജെന്നിംഗ്സ് ദ്വീപ്”
- Malayalam: “സ്വെയ്ൻസ് ദ്വീപ്”
- Malayalam: “സ്വൈൻസ് ദ്വീപ്”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Swains”
- Norwegian: “Swains”
- Persian: “جزیره سواینس”
- Polish: “Olosega”
- Polish: “Swains Island”
- Polish: “Swains”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Swains”
- Pushto: “سواينس ټاپو”
- Russian: “Суэйнс”
- Samoan: “Olosega”
- Samoan: “Olosenga”
- Sinhala: “ස්වේන්ස් දූපත, ඇමරිකානු සැමෝවා”
- Slovak: “Swains Island”
- Slovenian: “Olohega”
- Slovenian: “Swains Island”
- Spanish: “Isla Swains”
- Swedish: “Swainsön”
- Tagalog: “Pulo ng Swains”
- Turkish: “Swains Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Суейнс”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ سوئینز”
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Notable Places Nearby
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