Elephant Island
Elephant Island is an ice-covered, mountainous island off the coast of Antarctica in the outer reaches of the South Shetland Islands, in the Southern Ocean.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island off the coast of Antarctica
- Also known as: “Mordvinova, ostrov”
Elephant Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Elephant Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة إليفانت”
- Arabic: “جزيرة الفيل”
- Azerbaijani: “Fil adası”
- Basque: “Elefante uhartea”
- Bulgarian: “Елефант (остров)”
- Bulgarian: “Елефант”
- Catalan: “illa Elefant”
- Catalan: “Illa Elefant”
- Catalan: “Illa Elephant”
- Cebuano: “Elephant Island”
- Chinese: “象岛”
- Czech: “Sloní ostrov”
- Danish: “Elephant Island”
- Dutch: “Elephant (eiland)”
- Dutch: “Elephant Eiland”
- Dutch: “Elephanteiland”
- Dutch: “Olifanteiland”
- Esperanto: “Elefant-insulo”
- Esperanto: “Elefanta Insulo”
- Esperanto: “Elephant Island”
- Esperanto: “Elephant-insulo”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Elephant”
- Finnish: “Elefanttisaari”
- Finnish: “Elephant Island”
- French: “Elephant Island”
- French: “Ile de l’Elephant”
- French: “île de l’Éléphant”
- French: “Île de l’éléphant”
- French: “Île de l’Éléphant”
- French: “Île de lÉléphant”
- French: “Île Éléphant”
- Galician: “Illa Elefante”
- Georgian: “სპილოს კუნძული”
- German: “Elephant Island”
- Greek: “Νήσος Ελέφαντας”
- Hebrew: “אי הפיל”
- Hebrew: “אי הפילים”
- Hungarian: “Elefánt-sziget”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Elephant”
- Interlingua: “Insula Elephante”
- Italian: “Elephant Island (South Shetland Islands)”
- Italian: “Elephant island”
- Italian: “Isola dell’Elefante”
- Italian: “Isola elefante”
- Italian: “Isola Elefante”
- Italian: “isola Elephant”
- Italian: “Isola Elephant”
- Japanese: “エレファント島”
- Korean: “엘리펀트 섬”
- Korean: “엘리펀트섬”
- Latvian: “Elefanta”
- Macedonian: “Слоновски Остров”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Elefantøya”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Elephant Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elefantøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elephant Island”
- Norwegian: “Elefantøya”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Isla Elefant”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Elpendīeg”
- Persian: “جزیره الفانت”
- Persian: “جزیره الفنت”
- Polish: “Elephant Island”
- Polish: “Wyspa Słoniowa”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Elefante”
- Russian: “Мордвинова (остров)”
- Russian: “Остров Мордвинова”
- Russian: “Элефант (остров)”
- Slovenian: “Elephant Island”
- Slovenian: “Slonji otok”
- Spanish: “Elefante, isla”
- Spanish: “Isla Elefante”
- Swedish: “Elefantön”
- Swedish: “Elephant Island”
- Turkish: “Elephant Island”
- Turkish: “Fil adası”
- Turkish: “Fil Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Мордвинова”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Мордвінова”
- Welsh: “Ynys yr Eliffant”
- Western Frisian: “Oaljefanteilân”
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