Oliphant Islands
Oliphant Islands is a group of small ice-free islands and rocks lying south of Gourlay Peninsula, the southeast extremity of Signy Island in the South Orkney Islands. Dove Channel extends through this group in a general east-west direction.Places of Interest
Highlights include Tilbrook Hill and Garnet Hill.
Tilbrook Hill
Peak
Tilbrook Hill is a hill rising to 70 m between Hillier Moss and Caloplaca Cove in southeast Signy Island, South Orkney Islands. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1990 after Peter J.
Garnet Hill
Peak
Garnet Hill is a rocky hill, 230 metres high, rising above the east side of McLeod Glacier in the south part of Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands.
McLeod Glacier
Glacier
McLeod Glacier is a glacier 1 nautical mile long, flowing in a southeasterly direction into Clowes Bay on the south side of Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands off Antarctica.
Oliphant Islands
- Type: Island
- Categories: island group, locality, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-60.73427° or 60° 44′ 3″ southLongitude
-45.59073° or 45° 35′ 27″ westOpen location code
38FP7C85+7POpenStreetMap ID
node 2417888834OpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
6622598Wikidata ID
Q7086956
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Oliphant Islands” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Oliphant Islands”
- Chinese: “奧利芬特群島”
- Dutch: “Oliphant Islands”
- German: “Oliphant-Inseln”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oliphant Islands”
- Swedish: “Oliphant Islands”
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