Coronation Island
Coronation Island is the largest of the South Orkney Islands, 25 nautical miles long and from 3 to 8 nautical miles wide. The island extends in a general east–west direction, is mainly ice-covered and comprises numerous bays, glaciers and peaks, the highest rising to 1,265 metres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ben Tullis, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brisbane Heights and Wave Peak.
Brisbane Heights
Peak
Brisbane Heights are a series of heights rising to 960 metres and extending in an arc from Worswick Hill to High Stile in the central part of Coronation Island, South Orkney Islands.
Wave Peak
Peak
Wave Peak is a conspicuous peak, 960 m, which rises precipitously from the head of Laws Glacier in the central part of Coronation Island, in the South Orkney Islands. Wave Peak is situated 2½ km south of Coronation Island.
Coronation Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in South Orkney Islands
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Coronation Island” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Islla Coronación”
- Azerbaijani: “Koroneyşen”
- Bulgarian: “Коронейшън (остров)”
- Bulgarian: “Коронейшън”
- Catalan: “illa Coronació”
- Catalan: “Illa Coronació”
- Cebuano: “Coronation Island”
- Chinese: “科羅內申島”
- Czech: “Korunovační ostrov”
- Dutch: “Coronation Island”
- Esperanto: “Kronada insulo”
- French: “île du Couronnement”
- French: “Île du Couronnement”
- Georgian: “კორონეიშენის კუნძული”
- German: “Coronation Island”
- German: “Coronation-Insel”
- Italian: “Coronation Island”
- Italian: “Isola dell’Incoronazione”
- Japanese: “コロネーション島”
- Korean: “코로네이션섬”
- Latvian: “Koroneišena”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Coronation Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Coronation Island”
- Norwegian: “Coronation Island”
- Norwegian: “Kroningsøya”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Gewuldorbeagungīeg”
- Persian: “جزیره کورونیشن”
- Polish: “Coronation”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Coroação”
- Russian: “Коронейшен”
- Russian: “Коронейшн”
- Slovak: “Korunovačný ostrov”
- Spanish: “Coronación, isla”
- Spanish: “Isla Coronacion”
- Spanish: “Isla Coronación”
- Swedish: “Coronation Island”
- Turkish: “Coronation Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Коронейшн (острів)”
- Ukrainian: “Коронейшн”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Coronation”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Coronation Island”. Photo: Ben Tullis, CC BY 2.0.