Quintana Island
Quintana Island is a small isolated island, lying 10 km northeast of Betbeder Islands in the southwest part of the Wilhelm Archipelago. It was first charted as a group of islands by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, and named by Charcot for Manuel Quintana, then President of Argentina.Quintana Island
- Type: Islet
- Description: Island in Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-65.16014° or 65° 9′ 37″ southLongitude
-64.95638° or 64° 57′ 23″ westOpen location code
376QR2QV+WCOpenStreetMap ID
way 224802589OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Quintana Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Quintana”
- Chinese: “昆塔納島”
- Dutch: “Quintana Island”
- German: “Quintana-Insel”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Quintana Island”
- Spanish: “Isla Quintana”
- Spanish: “Quintana, isla”
- Spanish: “Quintana, Islotes”
- Swedish: “Quintana (ö)”
- Swedish: “Quintana Island”
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