Antarctica

Stonington Island

Stonington Island is a rocky island lying 1.8 km northeast of in the eastern part of off the west coast of , .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Anemometer Hill and Mast Hill.

Peak
is a hill 25 metres high northeast of on Stonington Island, in , . It was surveyed by the East Base party of the U.S.

Peak
is a hill 14 metres high about 100 meters from the western end of Stonington Island, , on the west side of the .

Islet
is a small, low, rocky island in Back Bay, lying 130 metres east of Stonington Island, off the on the west side of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Base.

Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
on Stonington Island is the oldest American research station in , having been commissioned by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939. The station was built as part of two US wintering expeditions – United States Antarctic Service Expedition and Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition.

Stonington Island

Latitude
-68.18611° or 68° 11′ 10″ south
Longitude
-66.99745° or 66° 59′ 51″ west
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
Open location code
373MR273+H2
Open­Street­Map ID
way 577706611
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­islet
Geo­Names ID
6626106
Wiki­data ID
Q618348
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Satellite Map

Discover Stonington Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Stonington Island” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Stonington”
  • Chinese: “斯托宁顿岛”
  • Chinese: “斯托寧頓島”
  • Dutch: “Stonington Island”
  • Finnish: “Stoningtonin saari”
  • French: “île Stonington”
  • French: “Île Stonington”
  • German: “Stonington-Insel”
  • Japanese: “ストーニングトン・アイランド”
  • Japanese: “ストーニングトン島”
  • Japanese: “ストーニントン・アイランド”
  • Japanese: “ストーニントン島”
  • Korean: “스토닝턴섬”
  • Latvian: “Stonington Island”
  • Latvian: “Stonington”
  • Latvian: “Stoningtonas sala”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Base E”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Stonington Island”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Stonington Island”
  • Norwegian: “Stonington Island”
  • Polish: “Stonington Island”
  • Russian: “Стонингтон (остров)”
  • Russian: “Стонингтон”
  • Spanish: “Isla Stonington”
  • Spanish: “Stonington, Isla”
  • Swedish: “Stonington (ö)”
  • Swedish: “Stonington Island”
  • “Stonington Island”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Stonington Island”. Photo: Mark Sykes, CC BY 2.0.