Tripod Island

Tripod Island is a small which lies close south of the west extremity of Eta Island and marks the north side of the western entrance to in the , .
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: Island in Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica
  • Also known as: Tripode”, “Trípode”, “Tripode, islote”, and “Trípode, islote

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bremen Island and Delta Island.

Islet
, also known as Zeta Island, is a 1 km2 or 100 ha uninhabited island, part of the in the Southern Ocean along the west coast of the .

Islet
is an island 1 kilometre long, lying close southeast of and east of in the , .

Island
is an lying immediately north-west of in the , of the in . The island, the largest in the north-western part of the island group, was first roughly charted and named "Île Sourrieu" by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05 under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, but that name has not survived in usage.

Tripod Island

Latitude
-64.30717° or 64° 18′ 26″ south
Longitude
-62.94314° or 62° 56′ 35″ west
Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)
Open location code
377VM3V4+4P
Geo­Names ID
6627004
Wiki­data ID
Q7843656
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Swedish—“Tripod Island” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: Trípode
  • Cebuano: Trípode
  • Chinese: 特賴波德島
  • Dutch: Tripod Island
  • Dutch: Trípode
  • French: Tripod Island
  • German: Tripod Island
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Tripod Island
  • Spanish: Tripod Island
  • Spanish: Trípode, Islote
  • Swedish: Tripod Island
  • Swedish: Trípode

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About Mapcarta. 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 “Tripod Island”. Photo: ravas51, CC BY-SA 2.0.