Signy Island
Signy Island is a small subantarctic island in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. It was named by the Norwegian whaler Petter Sørlle after his wife, Signy Therese.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ben Tullis, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jane Peak and McLeod Glacier.
Jane Peak
Peak
Jane Peak is a conspicuous nunatak, 210 metres high, standing 0.5 nautical miles west of the northern part of Borge Bay on 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.
Snow Hills
Peak
Snow Hills are two snow-covered hills, one 240 m, the other 265 m and 0.25 nautical miles to the west. Located 0.2 nautical miles west of Cemetery Bay in the east-central part of Signy Island.
Signy Island
- Type: Island
- Description: subantarctic island
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
Discover Signy Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Turkish—“Signy Island” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Siqni adası”
- Catalan: “illa Signy”
- Catalan: “Illa Signy”
- Cebuano: “Signy”
- Chinese: “西格尼岛”
- Chinese: “西格尼島”
- Dutch: “Signy Island”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Signy”
- Finnish: “Signy Island”
- French: “île Signy”
- French: “Île Signy”
- German: “Signy Island”
- German: “Signy-Insel”
- Hebrew: “סיגני (אי)”
- Hebrew: “סיגני”
- Italian: “Isola di Signy”
- Japanese: “シグニー島”
- Latvian: “Signijas sala”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Signy Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Signy Island”
- Norwegian: “Signy Island”
- Polish: “Signy”
- Russian: “Сигни”
- Russian: “Сигню”
- Spanish: “Isla Signy”
- Spanish: “Signy, isla”
- Swedish: “Signy Island”
- Swedish: “Signy”
- Turkish: “Signy Adası”
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