Beaufort Island
Beaufort Island is an island in Antarctica's Ross Sea. It is the northernmost feature of the Ross Archipelago, lying 21 kilometres north of Cape Bird, Ross Island.Photo: Tsy1980, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Paton Peak and Cadwalader Beach.
Paton Peak
Peak
Photo: Tsy1980, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Paton Peak is the highest point, at 740 m, on Beaufort Island, in the Ross Archipelago. Named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition for James Paton, a seaman who made at least six voyages to the Ross Sea area.
Cadwalader Beach
Beach
Cadwalader Beach is a beach nearly 1 mile long at the south end of Beaufort Island, in the Ross Archipelago in McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. The beach is occupied by a large Adélie penguin rookery and there is easy access from the sea when the coast is ice free.
Beaufort Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Antarctica’s Ross Sea
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Beaufort Island” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Bofort adası”
- Cebuano: “Beaufort Island”
- Chinese: “博福特島”
- Czech: “Beaufortův ostrov”
- Dutch: “Beaufort Island”
- French: “île Beaufort”
- French: “Île Beaufort”
- German: “Beaufort-Insel”
- Hebrew: “אי בופורט”
- Italian: “Isola Beaufort”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Beaufort Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beaufort Island”
- Norwegian: “Beaufort Island”
- Persian: “جزیره بوفورت”
- Polish: “Beaufort Island”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Beaufort”
- Romanian: “Insula Beaufort”
- Russian: “Остров Бофорта”
- Spanish: “Isla Beaufort”
- Swedish: “Beaufort Island, Antarktis”
- Swedish: “Beaufort Island”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Бофорта”
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