Ross Island
Ross Island is an island in Antarctica lying on the east side of McMurdo Sound and extending 43 nautical miles from Cape Bird in the north to Cape Armitage in the south, and a similar distance from Cape Royds in the west to Cape Crozier in the east.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Alan Light, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Caldwell Peak.
Caldwell Peak
Peak
Mount Terra Nova is a snow-covered mountain, 2,130 metres high, between Mount Erebus and Mount Terror volcanoes on Ross Island in Antarctica. It was first mapped by the British National Antarctic Expedition 1901–04, and named for the Terra Nova, relief ship for this expedition and the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13. Caldwell Peak is situated 4 km northeast of Ross Island.
Ross Island
- Type: Island
- Description: Antarctic volcanic island dependency of New Zealand
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
Discover Ross Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Ross Island” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Rosseiland”
- Arabic: “جزيرة روس”
- Asturian: “Islla de Ross”
- Azerbaijani: “Ross adası”
- Basque: “Ross uhartea”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Роса”
- Belarusian: “Роса”
- Bulgarian: “Рос”
- Catalan: “Illa de Ross”
- Catalan: “Illa Ross”
- Catalan: “Ross Island”
- Cebuano: “Ross Island (pulo sa Antarctica)”
- Cebuano: “Ross Island”
- Chinese: “罗斯岛”
- Chinese: “羅斯島”
- Croatian: “Rossov otok”
- Czech: “Ross Island”
- Czech: “Rossův ostrov”
- Danish: “Ross Island”
- Danish: “Ross-øen”
- Dutch: “Ross”
- Dutch: “Rosseiland”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Ross”
- Esperanto: “Ross-Insulo”
- Estonian: “Rossi saar”
- Finnish: “Ross Island”
- Finnish: “Rossin saari”
- Finnish: “Rossinsaari”
- French: “Ile de Ross”
- French: “île de Ross”
- French: “Île de Ross”
- French: “Ross Island”
- Galician: “Illa Ross”
- Georgian: “როსის კუნძული”
- German: “Ross Insel”
- German: “Ross-Insel”
- Greek: “νήσος Ρος”
- Greek: “Νήσος Ρος”
- Hebrew: “רוס”
- Hindi: “रॉस द्वीप, अंटार्कटिका”
- Hindi: “रॉस द्वीप”
- Hungarian: “Ross-sziget”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Ross”
- Italian: “isola di Ross”
- Italian: “Isola di Ross”
- Italian: “Isola Ross”
- Italian: “Ross Island”
- Japanese: “ロス島”
- Korean: “로스 섬”
- Korean: “로스섬”
- Latvian: “Rosa sala”
- Latvian: “Ross Island”
- Lithuanian: “Roso sala”
- Macedonian: “Рос”
- Macedonian: “Росов Остров”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ross Island”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rossøya”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rossøyen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ross Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rossøya i Antarktis”
- Norwegian: “Rossøya”
- Persian: “جزیره راس”
- Polish: “Wyspa Rossa”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Ross”
- Russian: “Остров Росса”
- Russian: “Росса”
- Scots: “Ross Island”
- Serbian: “Росово острво”
- Slovak: “Rossov ostrov”
- Slovenian: “Ross Island”
- Slovenian: “Rossov otok”
- Spanish: “Isla de Ross”
- Spanish: “Isla Ross”
- Swedish: “Ross Island”
- Swedish: “Rossön, Antarktis”
- Swedish: “Rossön”
- Thai: “เกาะรอสส์”
- Turkish: “Ross Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Росса”
- Ukrainian: “Росса”
- Western Panjabi: “روس جزیرہ”
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