Wednesday Island
Wednesday Island is an island 1 nautical mile long, at the east end of Wauwermans Islands in the north part of Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica. The Wauwermans Islands were discovered by the German expedition under Eduard Dallmann, 1873–74, and were later roughly mapped by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897–99, and the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot, 1903–05.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brown Island and Heed Rock.
Brown Island
Islet
Brown Island is a small, brown, almost snow-free island in the southeastern part of the Wauwermans Islands, 4 km southwest of Wednesday Island, in the Wilhelm Archipelago.
Heed Rock
Islet
Heed Rock is a very small rock, awash at high water and virtually hidden from sight, lying 1 nautical mile south of Brown Island in the Wauwermans Islands in the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica.
Wednesday Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Antarctica
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-64.93183° or 64° 55′ 55″ southLongitude
-63.72626° or 63° 43′ 35″ westElevation
11 metres (36 feet)Open location code
377R379F+7FOpenStreetMap ID
way 224779010OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
6621669Wikidata ID
Q7979237
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Wednesday Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Articuladas”
- Chinese: “星期三島”
- Dutch: “Wednesday Island”
- French: “île Wednesday”
- French: “Île Wednesday”
- German: “Wednesday Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wednesday Island”
- Spanish: “Articuladas, islas”
- Spanish: “Wednesday, Isla”
- Swedish: “Articuladas”
- Swedish: “Wednesday Island, Antarktis”
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