Nelson Island
Nelson Island is an island 22 kilometres long and 13 kilometres wide, lying southwest of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The name Nelson Island dates back to at least 1821 and is now established in international usage.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Grýn McSkalpeel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: island near King George Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
- Also known as: “Leipzig Island”, “O’Cain’s Island”, and “Strachans Island”
Nelson Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Nelson Island” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Nelson adası”
- Basque: “Nelson uhartea”
- Catalan: “Illa Nelson”
- Cebuano: “Nelson”
- Chinese: “納爾遜島”
- Croatian: “Nelson (Južni Shetland)”
- Croatian: “Nelson”
- Czech: “Nelsonův ostrov”
- Dutch: “Nelson Island”
- Finnish: “Nelson Island”
- French: “île Nelson”
- French: “Île Nelson”
- German: “Nelson Island”
- Hebrew: “האי אוקיין”
- Hebrew: “האי ליפציג”
- Hebrew: “האי נלסון”
- Hebrew: “האי סטארצ’נס”
- Hebrew: “נלסון”
- Italian: “Isola Nelson”
- Japanese: “ネルソン島”
- Korean: “넬슨섬”
- Latvian: “Nelsona sala”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nelson Island i Sør-Shetlandsøyane”
- Polish: “Wyspa Nelsona”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Nelson”
- Russian: “Нельсон”
- Spanish: “Isla Nelson”
- Spanish: “Nelson, isla”
- Swedish: “Nelson Island, Antarktis”
- Swedish: “Nelson Island”
- Turkish: “Nelson Adası (Güney Shetland Adaları)”
- Turkish: “Nelson Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Нельсон (Південні Шетландські острови)”
- Ukrainian: “Нельсон”
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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 “Nelson Island”. Photo: Grýn McSkalpeel, CC BY-SA 4.0.