Wood Island
Wood Island is a conspicuous rocky island in Hero Bay, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica lying southeast of Desolation Island and Miladinovi Islets and forming the south side of Blythe Bay.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Craggy Island and Miladinovi Islets.
Craggy Island
Islet
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Craggy Island is a narrow island marked by crags, lying in Hero Bay, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and forming the northeast side of Blythe Bay.
Miladinovi Islets
Islet
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Miladinovi Islets is a group of two small rocky islands, 500 by 370 m, and 350 by 200 m respectively, situated 300 m south of Iratais Point on Desolation Island off the north coast of Livingston Island, Antarctica.
Desolation Island
Island
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Desolation Island is one of the minor islands in the South Shetlands archipelago, Antarctica situated at the entrance to Hero Bay, Livingston Island. The island is V-shaped with its northern coast indented by Kozma Cove. Desolation Island is situated 3½ km northwest of Wood Island.
Wood Island
- Type: Islet
- Description: island in Antarctica
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-62.48304° or 62° 28′ 59″ southLongitude
-60.30807° or 60° 18′ 29″ westOpen location code
379XGM8R+QQOpenStreetMap ID
way 224764169OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Wood Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wood”
- Chinese: “伍德島”
- Dutch: “Wood Island”
- German: “Wood Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wood Island ved Livingston Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wood Island, Livingston Island”
- Spanish: “Isla Wood”
- Spanish: “Wood, isla”
- Swedish: “Wood Island, Antarktis”
- Swedish: “Wood”
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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 “Wood Island”. Photo: Apcbg, Public domain.