Bear Island
Bear Island or Isla Teniente González is a rocky island lying 1.9 kilometres west of Stonington Island in Marguerite Bay, off the coast of Graham Land.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Baffle Rock and Stonington Island.
Baffle Rock
Islet
Baffle Rock is a small rock, just visible at the surface at high tide, lying in the center of the deep water channel approach to Stonington Island, 1.1 kilometres northwest of the western tip of Neny Island in Marguerite Bay.
Stonington Island
Islet
Photo: Mark Sykes, CC BY 2.0.
Stonington Island is a rocky island lying 1.8 km northeast of Neny Island in the eastern part of Marguerite Bay off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.
Runaway Island
Islet
Runaway Island is a rocky island 0.7 nautical miles west of the west tip of Neny Island and 0.2 nautical miles northwest of surf rock, lying in Marguerite Bay off the west coast of Graham Land.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Base.
East Base
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
East Base on Stonington Island is the oldest American research station in Antarctica, having been commissioned by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939. The station was built as part of two US wintering expeditions – United States Antarctic Service Expedition and Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition.
Bear Island
- Type: Island
- Description: rocky island lying west of Stonington Island in Marguerite Bay
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-68.18333° or 68° 11′ southLongitude
-67.06667° or 67° 4′ westElevation
945 metres (3,100 feet)Open location code
373JRW8M+M8OpenStreetMap ID
node 4244062099OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Bear Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة الدب”
- Catalan: “Bear”
- Cebuano: “Bear Island (pulo sa Antarctica)”
- Cebuano: “Bear Island”
- Chinese: “熊岛”
- Chinese: “熊島”
- Dutch: “Bear Island”
- Finnish: “Karhusaari”
- French: “Bear Island”
- Galician: “Illa Bear, Antártida”
- Galician: “Illa Bear”
- German: “Bear Island”
- German: “Isla Teniente González”
- Italian: “isola Bear”
- Italian: “Isola Bear”
- Italian: “Isola del Tenente González”
- Italian: “Isola dell’Orso”
- Korean: “베어섬”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bear Island i Antarktis”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bear Island”
- Norwegian: “Bjørnøya”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Bear”
- Portuguese: “Ilha do Urso”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Tenente Gonzalez”
- Spanish: “Bear, Islote”
- Spanish: “Isla Bear”
- Spanish: “Isla del Teniente Gonzalez”
- Spanish: “Isla del Teniente González”
- Spanish: “Islote Bear”
- Swedish: “Bear Island, Antarktis”
- Swedish: “Bear Island”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bear Island”. Photo: ravas51, CC BY-SA 2.0.