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.
- Type: Island
- Description: island off the coast of Antarctica
- Also known as: “Elefanta Insulo”, “Elephant (eiland)”, “Elephant Eiland”, “Elephant island”, “Elephant Island (South Shetland Islands)”, “Elephant-insulo”, “Ile de l’Elephant”, “Île de l’éléphant”, “Île Éléphant”, “Illa Elephant”, “Insulo Elephant”, “Isola elefante”, “Isola Elefante”, “Mordvinova, ostrov”, “Olifanteiland”, “Wyspa Słoniowa”, “Мордвинова (остров)”, “Элефант (остров)”, “אי הפילים”, “جزيرة الفيل”, and “海象岛”
Elephant Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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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
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Elephant Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة إليفانت”
- Azerbaijani: “Fil adası”
- Basque: “Elefante uhartea”
- Bulgarian: “Елефант (остров)”
- Bulgarian: “Елефант”
- Catalan: “illa Elefant”
- Catalan: “Illa Elefant”
- Cebuano: “Elephant Island”
- Chinese: “象岛”
- Chinese: “象海豹岛”
- Czech: “Sloní ostrov”
- Danish: “Elephant Island”
- Dutch: “Elephanteiland”
- Esperanto: “Elefant-insulo”
- Finnish: “Elefanttisaari”
- French: “île de l’Éléphant”
- French: “Île de l’Éléphant”
- French: “Île de lÉléphant”
- Galician: “Illa Elefante”
- Georgian: “სპილოს კუნძული”
- German: “Elephant Island”
- Greek: “Νήσος Ελέφαντας”
- Hebrew: “אי הפיל”
- Hungarian: “Elefánt-sziget”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Elephant”
- Interlingua: “Insula Elephante”
- Italian: “Isola dell’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 Nynorsk: “Elefantøya”
- Norwegian: “Elefantøya”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Isla Elefant”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Elpendīeg”
- Persian: “جزیره الفانت”
- Persian: “جزیره الفنت”
- Polish: “Elephant Island”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Elefante”
- Russian: “Остров Мордвинова”
- Slovenian: “Slonji otok”
- Spanish: “Elefante, isla”
- Spanish: “Isla Elefante”
- Swedish: “Elefantön”
- Turkish: “Fil Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Мордвинова”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Мордвінова”
- Welsh: “Ynys yr Eliffant”
- Western Frisian: “Oaljefanteilân”
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