Elephant Island

Elephant Island is an ice-covered, mountainous island off the coast of in the outer reaches of the , in the Southern Ocean.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island off the coast of Antarctica
  • Also known as: Mordvinova, ostrov

Elephant Island

Latitude
-61.08486° or 61° 5′ 6″ south
Longitude
-55.18433° or 55° 11′ 4″ west
Elevation
852 metres (2,795 feet)
Open location code
38C6WR88+37
Geo­Names ID
6620729
Wiki­data ID
Q988689
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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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