Wiencke Island
Wiencke Island is an island 26 km long and from 3 to 8 km wide, about 67 km2 in area, the southernmost of the major islands of the Palmer Archipelago, lying between Anvers Island to its north across the Neumayer Channel and the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula to its east across the Gerlache Strait.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Georges Nijs, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Wiencke, Ile”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wheat, Mount and Noble Peak.
Wheat, Mount
Peak
Mount Wheat is a prominent mountain forming the highest point in Wall Range, rising immediately north of Thunder Glacier in the center of Wiencke Island, Palmer Archipelago.
Noble Peak
Peak
Noble Peak is a peak in the Comer Range, 720 m, standing 1 nautical mile southwest of Lockley Point and marking the northeast end of a prominent ridge on the northwest side of Wiencke Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. Noble Peak is situated 3 km northwest of Wiencke Island.
Jabet Peak
Peak
Jabet Peak is a peak in the Comer Range, 545 metres high, which marks the southwestern end of the serrate ridge 1 mile northeast of Port Lockroy, Wiencke Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. Jabet Peak is situated 3½ km west of Wiencke Island.
Wiencke Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
Discover Wiencke Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Wiencke Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wiencke”
- Chinese: “温克岛”
- Chinese: “溫克島”
- Dutch: “Wiencke Island”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Wiencke”
- French: “île Wiencke”
- French: “Île Wiencke”
- German: “Wiencke Island”
- German: “Wiencke-Insel”
- German: “Wiencke”
- Hebrew: “וינצקה”
- Latvian: “Île Wiencke”
- Latvian: “Isla Wiencke”
- Latvian: “Vīnkes sala”
- Latvian: “Wiencke Island”
- Latvian: “Wiencke”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wiencke Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wiencke Island”
- Norwegian: “Wiencke Island”
- Polish: “Wiencke Island”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Wiencke”
- Spanish: “Isla Wiencke”
- Spanish: “Wiencke, isla”
- Swedish: “Wienckeön”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Harbour Glacier and Wall Range.
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