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.- Island
- …lies at an elevation of around 470 metres (1,550 feet)
- Description: island in Antarctica
- Categories
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-66.13442° or 66° 8′ 4″ south
Longitude
96.67101° or 96° 40′ 16″ east
Open location code
3M5RVM8C+6C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=ice
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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In Other Languages
From Bosnian to Turkish—“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”
- 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”
- Turkish: “Masson Adası”
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