Peter I Island
Peter I Island is an uninhabited volcanic island in the Bellingshausen Sea, 450 kilometres from continental Antarctica. It is claimed as a dependency of Norway and, along with Bouvet Island and Queen Maud Land, composes one of the three Norwegian dependent territories in the Antarctic and Subantarctic.- Type: Island
- Description: Norwegian territorial claim and volcanic island in the Bellingshausen Sea
- Also known as: “Île Pierre 1er”, “Ile Pierre Ier”, “Ilha de D. Pedro I”, “Ilha pedro i”, “Illa de Pedro I”, “Isla de Pedro I”, “Peter 1s øy”, “Peter den I øy”, “Peter I Eiland”, “Peter I Island (Norway)”, “Peter I:s øy”, “Peter I.-Insel”, “Peter I’s øy”, “Peter Is øy”, “Petra I, ostrov”, “Νήσος Πέτρου Α‘”, “Остров на Петар I”, “Остров Петра Первого”, “Петра I”, “Петра I остров”, “אי פיוטר הראשון”, “פיוטר הראשון”, “جزيرة بيتر الأول”, “표트르 1세 섬”, “ピーター1世島”, and “ペーター1世島”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Lars Christensen Peak.
Lars Christensen Peak
Volcano
Lars Christensen Peak, also known as Lars… Lars Christensen Peak is situated 3 km northwest of Peter I Island.
Peter I Island
- Categories: dependency of Norway, disputed territory, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-68.84722° or 68° 50′ 50″ south
Longitude
-90.59673° or 90° 35′ 48″ west
Elevation
1,101 metres (3,612 feet)
Open location code
363F5C33+48
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Peter I Island” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Peter I-Eiland”
- Arabic: “جزيرة بطرس الأول”
- Armenian: “Պետրոս I-ի կղզի”
- Asturian: “Islla Pedro I”
- Asturian: “Islla Pedru I”
- Azerbaijani: “I Pyotr adası”
- Basque: “Petri I.a uhartea”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Пятра I”
- Bengali: “পিটার ১ দ্বীপ”
- Bengali: “প্রথম পিটার দ্বীপ”
- Breton: “Enez Pêr Iañ”
- Bulgarian: “Петър І (остров)”
- Bulgarian: “Петър І”
- Catalan: “Illa de Pere I”
- Catalan: “Illa Pere I”
- Cebuano: “Peter I Øy”
- Chechen: “I Петран гӀайре”
- Chinese: “彼得一世岛”
- Chinese: “彼得一世島”
- Czech: “ostrov Petra I.”
- Czech: “Ostrov Petra I.”
- Danish: “Peter I’s Ø”
- Danish: “Peter Is Ø”
- Dutch: “Peter I-eiland”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيرة بطرس الاول”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Petro la Unua”
- Estonian: “Peeter I saar”
- Faroese: “Peteroy”
- Finnish: “Pietari I:n saari”
- French: “île Pierre Ier”
- French: “Île Pierre Ier”
- Galician: “Illa Pedro I”
- Georgian: “პეტრე I-ის კუნძული”
- German: “Peter-I.-Insel (Norwegen)”
- German: “Peter-I.-Insel”
- Greek: “Νησί του Πέτρου Α΄”
- Hebrew: “פטר הראשון”
- Hungarian: “I. Péter-sziget”
- Icelandic: “Eyja Péturs 1.”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Peter I”
- Irish: “Oileán Pheadar I”
- Italian: “isola Pietro I”
- Italian: “Isola Pietro I”
- Japanese: “ピョートル1世島”
- Kazakh: “І Петр аралы”
- Korean: “페테르 1세 섬”
- Korean: “페테르 1세섬”
- Latvian: “Pētera I Sala”
- Ligurian: “Isoa de Pè Primmo”
- Literary Chinese: “彼得一世島”
- Lithuanian: “Petro I sala”
- Macedonian: “Петар I”
- Northern Frisian: “Peter I. Eilun”
- Northern Sami: “Peter I soulu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Peter I Øy”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Peter I Øy”
- Norwegian: “Peter 1.s øy”
- Norwegian: “Peter I Øy”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Illa Pèire Ièr”
- Persian: “جزیره پتر یکم”
- Polish: “Wyspa Piotra I”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Pedro I”
- Pushto: “د لومړي پيټر ټاپو”
- Romanian: “Insula Petru I”
- Russian: “Остров Петра I”
- Scots: “Peter I Island”
- Serbian: “Острво Петра I”
- Slovak: “Ostrov Petra I.”
- Slovenian: “Otok Petra I.”
- Spanish: “Isla Pedro I”
- Spanish: “Pedro I, Isla”
- Sundanese: “Pulo Peter I”
- Swedish: “Peter I:s ö”
- Tatar: “Петр I утравы”
- Thai: “เกาะปีเตอร์ที่ 1”
- Turkish: “I. Peter Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Петра I”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ پیٹر اول”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Peter I”
- Waray (Philippines): “Peter I (purô)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Peter I”
- Western Frisian: “Peter I-eilân”
- Wu Chinese: “彼得一世岛”
- Yue Chinese: “彼得一世島”
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