Roosevelt Island
Roosevelt Island is the second largest ice rise of Antarctica and world-wide, after Berkner Island. Despite its name, it is not an island, since the bedrock below the ice at its highest part is below sea level.
Photo: Avenue, Public domain.- Type: Island
- Description: island in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Ile Roosevelt”, “Roosevelt Island, Antarctica”, “Roosevelt-eiland”, “Roosevelteiland”, “Rooseveltinsel”, and “Остров Рузвелт”
Roosevelt Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-79.28333° or 79° 17′ south
Longitude
-162° or 162° west
Elevation
425 metres (1,394 feet)
Open location code
22GWP282+M2
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Roosevelt Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة روزفلت”
- Asturian: “Islla Roosevelt”
- Azerbaijani: “Ruzvelt adası”
- Bulgarian: “Рузвелт”
- Catalan: “illa de Roosevelt”
- Catalan: “Illa de Roosevelt”
- Cebuano: “Roosevelt Island (pulo sa Antarctica)”
- Cebuano: “Roosevelt Island”
- Chinese: “罗斯福岛”
- Chinese: “羅斯福島”
- Czech: “Rooseveltův ostrov”
- Dutch: “Roosevelt”
- Finnish: “Rooseveltinsaari”
- French: “île Roosevelt”
- French: “Île Roosevelt”
- Galician: “Illa Roosevelt”
- Georgian: “რუზველტის კუნძული”
- German: “Roosevelt-Insel”
- Greek: “Ρούσβελτ νήσος”
- Greek: “Ρούσβελτ”
- Hebrew: “רוזוולט”
- Italian: “isola Roosevelt”
- Italian: “Isola Roosevelt”
- Japanese: “ルーズベルト島”
- Korean: “루스벨트섬”
- Latvian: “Rūzvelta sala”
- Lithuanian: “Ruzvelto sala”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Roosevelt Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Roosevelt Island i Antarktis”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Roosevelt Island”
- Norwegian: “Roosevelt Island”
- Norwegian: “Rooseveltøya”
- Persian: “جزیره روزولت”
- Polish: “Wyspa Roosevelta”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Roosevelt”
- Russian: “Остров Рузвельт”
- Russian: “Остров Рузвельта”
- Russian: “Рузвельт”
- Slovak: “Rooseveltov ostrov”
- Spanish: “Isla Roosevelt”
- Swedish: “Roosevelt Island”
- Turkish: “Roosevelt Adası (Antarktika)”
- Turkish: “Roosevelt Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Рузвельта”
- Western Panjabi: “روزویلٹ جزیرہ”
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