Tonkin Island
Tonkin Island is a narrow, ice-capped island in Antarctica. It is 3.5 nautical miles long in a north-south direction, marked by ice-free peaks at each end, lying 11 nautical miles southeast of Choyce Point, Bowman Coast, in Larsen Ice Shelf.- Island
- …lies at an elevation of 180 metres (591 feet)
- …is also known as “Tonkin, isla”
- Description: island in Graham Land, Antarctica
Tonkin Island
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- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-67.82336° or 67° 49′ 24″ south
Longitude
-65.1478° or 65° 8′ 52″ west
Open location code
374P5VG2+MV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Tonkin Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Tonkin”
- Chinese: “湯金島”
- Dutch: “Tonkin Island”
- German: “Tonkin Island”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tonkin Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tonkin Island”
- Norwegian: “Tonkin Island”
- Spanish: “Tonkin, Isla”
- Swedish: “Tonkin Island”
- Swedish: “Tonkin”
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