Moresby Island

Moresby Island is a large island (2,929.22 km. Moresby Island is the 170th largest island in the world, and the 30th largest island in Canada. On October 27, 2012, the Haida Gwaii earthquake of magnitude 7.7 was epicentres at a depth of 17.5 km under the island.
Wikipedia
  • Island
  • …has 402 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 118 metres (387 feet)
  • Description: second largest island of the Haida Gwaii archipelago in British Columbia, Canada

Moresby Island

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Latitude
52.3953° or 52° 23′ 43″ north
Longitude
-131.47339° or 131° 28′ 24″ west
Open location code
944C9GWG+4J
Geo­Names ID
6078500
Wiki­data ID
Q31772

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Moresby Island” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جزيرة مورسبي”
  • Azerbaijani: “Morsbi adası”
  • Basque: “Moresby uhartea”
  • Bulgarian: “Морсби”
  • Catalan: “Illa Moresby”
  • Cebuano: “Moresby Island”
  • Chinese: “莫爾斯比島”
  • Czech: “Moresby”
  • Czech: “ostrov Moresby”
  • Dutch: “Moresby Island”
  • Finnish: “Moresbynsaari”
  • French: “île Moresby”
  • French: “Île Moresby”
  • Galician: “Illa Moresby”
  • German: “Moresby Island”
  • Hindi: “मोरेस्बी द्वीप”
  • Indonesian: “Moresby Island”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Moresby”
  • Italian: “Isola di Moresby”
  • Japanese: “モレスビー島”
  • Korean: “모즈비섬”
  • Latvian: “Morsbija sala”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Moresbyøya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Moresbysøya”
  • Polish: “Moresby”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Moresby”
  • Portuguese: “Moresby”
  • Romanian: “Insula Moresby”
  • Russian: “Морсби”
  • Spanish: “Isla Moresby”
  • Swedish: “Moresby Island”
  • Turkish: “Moresby Adası”
  • Turkish: “Moresby Island”
  • Ukrainian: “Морсбі”

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