Hans Island
Hans Island is an island in the centre of the Kennedy Channel of the Nares Strait in the high Arctic region, split between the Canadian territory of Nunavut and the Danish rigsdel of Greenland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island off the coast of Ellesmere Island, belonging to Canada and Denmark
- Also known as: “Tartupaluk Island”
Hans Island
- Categories: disputed territory and landform
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Hans Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة هانز”
- Armenian: “Հանսի կղզի”
- Azerbaijani: “Hans adası”
- Basque: “Hans uhartea”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Ганса”
- Catalan: “Illa de Hans”
- Cebuano: “Hans Island”
- Central Bikol: “Isla nin Hans”
- Chinese: “漢斯島”
- Czech: “Hansův ostrov”
- Danish: “Hans Ø”
- Dutch: “Hanseiland”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Hans”
- Esperanto: “Tartupaluk”
- Estonian: “Tartupaluk”
- Finnish: “Hansinsaari”
- French: “île Hans”
- French: “Île Hans”
- German: “Hans-Insel”
- German: “Hansinsel”
- German: “Tartupaluk-Insel”
- German: “Tartupalukinsel”
- Greek: “Νήσος Χανς”
- Hebrew: “האי הנס”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Hans”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Tartupaluk”
- Interlingua: “Insula de Hans”
- Inuktitut: “Tartupaluk”
- Inuktitut: “ᑕᕐᑐᐸᓗᒃ”
- Italian: “isola Hans”
- Italian: “Isola Hans”
- Japanese: “ハンス島”
- Korean: “한스 섬”
- Korean: “한스섬”
- Latvian: “Hansa sala”
- Lithuanian: “Hanso sala”
- Livvi: “Tartupaluk”
- Lombard: “Isola Hans”
- Luxembourgish: “Hans-Insel”
- Macedonian: “Хансов Остров”
- Northern Sami: “Hans Ö”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hans Ø”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hans Øy”
- Norwegian: “Hans Ø”
- Panjabi: “ਹਾਂਸ ਟਾਪੂ”
- Persian: “جزیره هانس”
- Polish: “Hans”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Hans”
- Russian: “Ганс (остров)”
- Russian: “Ганса (остров)”
- Russian: “остров Ганса”
- Russian: “остров Ханс”
- Russian: “Тартупалук”
- Russian: “Ханс (остров)”
- Russian: “Ханс”
- Slovenian: “otok Hans”
- Slovenian: “otok Tartupaluk”
- Spanish: “Isla Hans”
- Swedish: “Hans ö”
- Turkish: “Hans Adası”
- Turkish: “Hans Island”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Ганса”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Hans”
- Yue Chinese: “漢斯島”
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