Alexander Island

Alexander Island, also known as Alexander I Island, Alexander I Land, Alexander Land, Alexander I Archipelago, and Zemlja Alexandra I, is the largest island of .
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  • Island
  • …lies at an elevation of around 710 metres (2,340 feet)
  • Description: island in the Bellingshausen Sea off Antarctica
  • Also known as
    “Alexander I Island”
    “Alexander I Land”
    “Alexander Land”
    “Alexander The First Island”
    “Isla Alejandro I”
  • Categories
    disputed territory
    landform
  • Location:
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Latitude
-71.2867° or 71° 17′ 12″ south
Longitude
-69.89502° or 69° 53′ 42″ west
Open location code
27WGP473+8X
Geo­Names ID
6620703
Wiki­data ID
Q200223

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Alexander Island” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Alexander-eiland”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة ألكسندر”
  • Armenian: “Ալեքսանդր I-ի երկիր”
  • Armenian: “Ալեքսանդր Առաջինի երկիր”
  • Asturian: “Islla Alexandru I”
  • Asturian: “Islla d’Alexandru I”
  • Azerbaijani: “I Aleksandr Torpağı”
  • Bashkir: “Александр I утрауы”
  • Basque: “Alexandro I.a uhartea”
  • Basque: “Alexandro I.aren uhartea”
  • Belarusian: “Зямля Аляксандра I”
  • Bosnian: “Aleksandrovo ostrvo”
  • Breton: “Enez Aleksandr Iañ”
  • Bulgarian: “Александър”
  • Bulgarian: “Земя Александър I”
  • Bulgarian: “Земя Александър”
  • Catalan: “Illa d’Alexandre I”
  • Cebuano: “Alexander Island”
  • Cherokee: “ᎠᎴxᎠnᏕr Ꭲ ᎢᏍᎳnd”
  • Cherokee: “ᎠᎴxᎠnᏕr Ꭲ Ꮃnd”
  • Cherokee: “ᎠᎴxᎠnᏕr ᎢᏍᎳnd”
  • Cherokee: “ᎠᎴxᎠnᏕr Ꮃnd”
  • Chinese: “亚历山大一世岛”
  • Chinese: “亞歷山大一世島”
  • Chinese: “亞歷山大島”
  • Chuvash: “Александр I çĕрĕ”
  • Croatian: “Otok Aleksandra I.”
  • Czech: “Alexandrův ostrov”
  • Czech: “Ostrov Alexandra I.”
  • Dutch: “Alexander Island”
  • Dutch: “Alexandereiland”
  • Esperanto: “Insulo Alexander”
  • Estonian: “Aleksander I maa”
  • Finnish: “Aleksanteri I:n maa”
  • Finnish: “Aleksanteri I:n saari”
  • Finnish: “Aleksanterinsaari”
  • French: “Île Alexandra”
  • French: “Île Alexandre-Ier”
  • French: “Terre Alexandre”
  • Galician: “Illa Alexandre I”
  • Georgian: “ალექსანდრე I-ის მიწა”
  • Georgian: “ალექსანდრე პირველის კუნძული”
  • German: “Alexander-I.-Insel”
  • German: “Alexander-I.-Land”
  • German: “Alexanderinsel”
  • Greek: “Γη Αλεξάνδρου Α΄”
  • Hebrew: “ארץ אלכסנדר”
  • Hindi: “ऐलेक्ज़ैन्डर द्वीप”
  • Hungarian: “I. Sándor-sziget”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Aleksander”
  • Interlingua: “Insula de Alexander”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐊᓕᒃᓵᓐᑐ ᕿᑭᖅᑕᖅ”
  • Italian: “Isola Alessandro I”
  • Italian: “Isola di Alessandro I”
  • Italian: “Terra di Alessandro”
  • Japanese: “アレクサンダー島”
  • Kannada: “ಅಲೆಕ್ಸಾಂಡರ್ ದ್ವೀಪಗಳು”
  • Korean: “알렉산더섬”
  • Latin: “Insula Alexandri”
  • Latvian: “Aleksandra I sala”
  • Latvian: “Aleksandra I Zeme”
  • Latvian: “Alexander I Island”
  • Latvian: “Isla Alejandro I”
  • Latvian: “Земля Александра I”
  • Latvian: “Остров Александра I”
  • Lithuanian: “Aleksandro I sala”
  • Lithuanian: “Aleksandro I Žemė”
  • Low German: “Alexander-I.-Eiland”
  • Macedonian: “Александар I”
  • Macedonian: “Александров Остров”
  • Malayalam: “അലക്സാണ്ടർ ദ്വീപ്”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aleksanderøya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alexander Island”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alexanderøya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aleksanderøya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alexander I Archipelago”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alexander I Island”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alexander I Land”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alexander Island”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alexander Land”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zemlja Aleksandra I”
  • Norwegian: “Aleksanderøya”
  • Norwegian: “Alexanderøya”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Illa Alexandre”
  • Persian: “جزیره الکساندر”
  • Polish: “Wyspa Aleksandra”
  • Polish: “Ziemia Aleksandra I”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Alexandre I”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Alexandre”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Alexandre”
  • Romanian: “Insula Alexandru I”
  • Russian: “Александра I Земля”
  • Russian: “Александра”
  • Russian: “Земля Александра I”
  • Russian: “Остров Александра I”
  • Scots: “Alexander Island”
  • Serbian: “Aleksandrovo ostrvo”
  • Serbian: “Александрово острво”
  • Slovak: “Ostrov Alexandra I.”
  • Slovenian: “Aleksandrov otok”
  • Spanish: “Alejandro I, Isla”
  • Spanish: “Alejandro I”
  • Spanish: “Isla Alejandro I”
  • Swahili: “Kisiwa cha Alexander”
  • Swedish: “Alexander Island”
  • Tagalog: “Isla ng Alexander”
  • Tamil: “அலெக்சாண்டர் தீவு”
  • Thai: “เกาะอเล็กซานเดอร์”
  • Turkish: “Alexander Adası”
  • Ukrainian: “Земля Олександра I”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Alexander”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alexander Island”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alexander”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Isla han Alexander”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Purô han Alexander”
  • Welsh: “Ynys Alexander I”
  • Western Panjabi: “الیگزنڈر جزیرہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚历山大一世岛”
  • Yue Chinese: “亞歷山大島”

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