Tent Island
Erebus Bay is a bay about 13 nautical miles wide between Cape Evans and Hut Point Peninsula, on the west side of Ross Island, Antarctica.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Inaccessible Island and Big Razorback Island.
Inaccessible Island
Island
Photo: Ketiltrout, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Erebus Bay is a bay about 13 nautical miles wide between Cape Evans and Hut Point Peninsula, on the west side of Ross Island, Antarctica.
Big Razorback Island
Islet
Photo: Alan Light, CC BY 2.0.
Erebus Bay is a bay about 13 nautical miles wide between Cape Evans and Hut Point Peninsula, on the west side of Ross Island, Antarctica.
West Peak
Peak
There are 21 mountain peaks named West Peak in the United States according to the US Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include World Park Base and Pakaru Icefalls.
World Park Base
Locality
World Park Base was a non-governmental year-round Antarctic base located at Cape Evans on Ross Island in the Ross Dependency. It was the only non-government Antarctic base.
Pakaru Icefalls
Locality
Cape Evans is a rocky cape on the west side of Ross Island, Antarctica, forming the north side of the entrance to Erebus Bay. Pakaru Icefalls is situated 10 km northeast of Tent Island.
Tent Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Antarctica
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-77.68528° or 77° 41′ 7″ southLongitude
166.38777° or 166° 23′ 16″ eastElevation
135 metres (443 feet)Open location code
2VJ8897Q+V4OpenStreetMap ID
way 176754457OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
6626556Wikidata ID
Q2403832
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Tent Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Tent Island”
- Dutch: “Tent Island”
- German: “Tent Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tent Island”
- Swedish: “Tent Island”
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Localities in the Area
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