Omega Island
Omega Island is an island 3.7 kilometres long, which lies immediately south of Eta Island in the Melchior Islands, Palmer Archipelago. This island, the largest feature in the southeast part of the Melchior Islands, is part of what was called Île Melchior by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 1903–05, but the name Melchior now applies for the whole island group.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Melchior Islands and Bremen Island.
Melchior Islands
Island
Photo: Jorval, Public domain.
The Melchior Islands are a group of many low, ice-covered islands lying near the center of Dallmann Bay between Brabant Island and Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica.
Bremen Island
Islet
Bremen Island, also known as Zeta Island, is a 1 km2 or 100 ha uninhabited island, part of the Melchior Islands in the Southern Ocean along the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Gamma Island
Island
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.
Gamma Island is an island, 1.6 kilometres long, which marks the southwestern extremity of the Melchior Islands in the Palmer Archipelago. This island was first roughly charted and named "Ile Gouts" by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, but that name has not survived in usage. Gamma Island is situated 3 km west of Omega Island.
Omega Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Omega Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة أوميغا”
- Cebuano: “Omega Island”
- Chinese: “歐米加島”
- Dutch: “Omega-eiland”
- French: “île Omega”
- French: “Île Omega”
- German: “Omegainsel”
- Hebrew: “אומגה”
- Hebrew: “האי אומגה”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Omega Island”
- Polish: “Wyspa Omega”
- Spanish: “Isla Sobral”
- Spanish: “Omega, Isla”
- Spanish: “Sobral, isla”
- Swedish: “Omega Island”
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