Antarctica

Useful Island

Useful Island is an 3.2 km west of , with a string of rocks between, lying in off the west coast of . It was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Adrien de Gerlache.
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Useful Island

Latitude
-64.71822° or 64° 43′ 6″ south
Longitude
-62.87105° or 62° 52′ 16″ west
Open location code
377V74JH+PH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 224777117
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­islet
Geo­Names ID
6627276
Wiki­data ID
Q7901788
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Satellite Map

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

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Useful Island” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Useful Island”
  • Chinese: “尤斯弗爾島”
  • Dutch: “Useful Island”
  • German: “Useful Island”
  • Italian: “Isola Useful”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Useful Island”
  • Spanish: “Isla Útil”
  • Spanish: “Useful, Islote”
  • Spanish: “Util, isla”
  • Swedish: “Useful Island”

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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 “Useful Island”. Photo: Joseph W. Holliday, CC BY-SA 4.0.