Roux Island
Roux Island is an island 3.7 kilometres long, lying 0.9 kilometres north of Arrowsmith Peninsula at the west side of the entrance to Lallemand Fjord, off the west coast of Graham Land.- Type: Island
- Description: island in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Roux, isla”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Organ Peak.
Organ Peak
Peak
Organ Peak is the northernmost peak of Arrowsmith Peninsula, Graham Land. Mapped in 1960 from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey. The name, which arose locally in 1956, is descriptive; the fluted appearance of this peak resembles the pipes of an organ. Organ Peak is situated 3½ km south of Roux Island.
Roux Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Roux Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Roux”
- Chinese: “魯島”
- Dutch: “Roux Island”
- German: “Roux-Insel”
- Hebrew: “האי רו”
- Hebrew: “רו”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Roux Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Roux Island”
- Norwegian: “Roux Island”
- Spanish: “Roux, Isla”
- Swedish: “Roux (ö)”
- Swedish: “Roux Island”
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