Nicholson Island
Nicholson Island is the westernmost of the Bailey Rocks, lying 0.1 nautical miles northeast of Budnick Hill in Newcomb Bay, Windmill Islands. First mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47.- Islet
- …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (20 feet)
- Description: part of the Bailey Rocks, off Antarctica
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- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-66.27721° or 66° 16′ 38″ south
Longitude
110.53134° or 110° 31′ 53″ east
Open location code
3P5GPGFJ+4G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Nicholson Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Nicholson Island”
- Chinese: “尼科爾森島”
- Dutch: “Nicholson Island”
- French: “Ile Nicholson”
- German: “Nicholson Island”
- German: “Nicholson-Insel”
- Italian: “Isola Nicholson”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nicholson Island”
- Swedish: “Nicholson Island, Antarktis”
- Swedish: “Nicholson Island”
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