Masson Island
Masson Island or Mission Island is an ice-covered island about 31 kilometres long and rising to 465 metres, lying 17 kilometres northwest of Henderson Island within the Shackleton Ice Shelf.Masson Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Antarctica
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-66.13442° or 66° 8′ 4″ southLongitude
96.67101° or 96° 40′ 16″ eastElevation
471 metres (1,545 feet)Open location code
3M5RVM8C+6COpenStreetMap ID
way 233036198OpenStreetMap feature
natural=iceOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
6620728Wikidata ID
Q1407303
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In Other Languages
From Bosnian to Swedish—“Masson Island” goes by many names.
- Bosnian: “Ostrvo Masson”
- Breton: “Enez Masson”
- Catalan: “illa Masson”
- Cebuano: “Masson Island (pulo sa Antarctica)”
- Cebuano: “Masson Island”
- Chinese: “馬森島”
- Dutch: “Masson Island”
- French: “île Masson”
- French: “Île Masson”
- Galician: “Illa Masson”
- German: “Masson Island”
- German: “Masson-Insel”
- Japanese: “マッソン島”
- Latvian: “Masona sala”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Masson Island”
- Norwegian: “Massonøya”
- Polish: “Masson Island”
- Polish: “Wyspa Massona”
- Spanish: “Isla Masson”
- Swedish: “Masson Island”
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