Thurston Island
Thurston Island is a largely ice-covered, glacially dissected island, 135 nautical miles long and 55 nautical miles wide, lying between Amundsen Sea and Bellingshausen Sea a short way off the northwest end of Ellsworth Land, Antarctica.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Thurston Island
- Type: Island
- Description: Antarctic island
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Thurston Island” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Thurston-eiland”
- Arabic: “جزيرة ثورستن”
- Azerbaijani: “Terston”
- Basque: “Thurston uhartea”
- Bulgarian: “Търстън (остров)”
- Bulgarian: “Търстън”
- Catalan: “illa de Thurston”
- Catalan: “Illa de Thurston”
- Cebuano: “Thurston Island”
- Chinese: “瑟斯顿岛”
- Czech: “Thurstonův ostrov”
- Dutch: “Thurston-eiland”
- Dutch: “Thurstoneiland”
- Finnish: “Thurstoninsaari”
- French: “île Thurston”
- French: “Île Thurston”
- French: “Thurston Island”
- Galician: “Illa Thurston”
- Georgian: “ტარსტონი”
- German: “Thurston-Insel”
- Greek: “Θέρστον”
- Hebrew: “האי ת’רסטון”
- Hebrew: “ת’רסטון”
- Italian: “isola Thurston”
- Italian: “Isola Thurston”
- Japanese: “サーストン島”
- Latvian: “Tērstona sala”
- Lithuanian: “Tarstono sala”
- Macedonian: “Тарстон”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thurston Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thurston Island”
- Norwegian: “Thurston Island”
- Norwegian: “Thurstonøya”
- Polish: “Wyspa Thurstona”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Thurston”
- Russian: “Терстон”
- Slovak: “Thurstonov polostrov”
- Spanish: “Isla Thurston”
- Spanish: “Thurston, Isla”
- Swedish: “Thurston Island”
- Turkish: “Thurston Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Тарстон”
- Ukrainian: “Терстон”
- Waray (Philippines): “Thurston”
- Welsh: “Ynys Thurston”
- Western Panjabi: “تھرسٹن جزیرہ”
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