White Island
White Island is an island in the Ross Archipelago of Antarctica. It is 15 nautical miles long, protruding through the Ross Ice Shelf immediately east of Black Island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Eli Duke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Heine and Kienle Cirque.
Mount Heine
Peak
White Island is an island in the Ross Archipelago of Antarctica. It is 15 nautical miles long, protruding through the Ross Ice Shelf immediately east of Black Island.
Kienle Cirque
Valley
White Island is an island in the Ross Archipelago of Antarctica. It is 15 nautical miles long, protruding through the Ross Ice Shelf immediately east of Black Island.
Hayward, Mount
Peak
White Island is an island in the Ross Archipelago of Antarctica. It is 15 nautical miles long, protruding through the Ross Ice Shelf immediately east of Black Island.
White Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in the Ross Archipelago of Antarctica
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-78.07778° or 78° 4′ 40″ southLongitude
167.4294° or 167° 25′ 46″ eastElevation
701 metres (2,300 feet)Open location code
2VH9WCCH+VQOpenStreetMap ID
node 4484194062OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“White Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “White Island”
- Chinese: “怀特岛”
- Chinese: “懷特島”
- Dutch: “White Island”
- Esperanto: “Blanka Insulo”
- French: “Ile White”
- French: “île White”
- French: “Île White”
- German: “White Island”
- Hebrew: “האי וייט”
- Italian: “Isola White (arcipelago di Ross)”
- Italian: “Isola White”
- Japanese: “ホワイト島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “White Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “White Island i Ross Archipelago”
- Norwegian: “White Island”
- Persian: “جزیره وایت”
- Portuguese: “Ilha White”
- Swedish: “White Island, Ross Archipelago”
- Swedish: “White Island”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Marshall Cirque and Dibble Bluff.
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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 “White Island”. Photo: Eli Duke, CC BY-SA 2.0.