Buckle Island

Buckle Island is one of the three main islands in the uninhabited Balleny Islands group located in the Southern Ocean. It lies 25 km north-west of and 8 km south-east of , some 110 km north-north-east of on the Antarctic mainland.
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Buckle Island

Latitude
-66.83333° or 66° 50′ south
Longitude
163.2° or 163° 12′ east
Elevation
740 metres (2,428 feet)
Open location code
3V55558X+MX
Geo­Names ID
6630485
Wiki­data ID
Q999791
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Buckle Island” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: Islla Buckle
  • Azerbaijani: Bakl adası
  • Catalan: illa Buckle
  • Catalan: Illa Buckle
  • Cebuano: Buckle Island
  • Chinese: 巴克尔岛
  • Chinese: 巴寇島
  • French: île Buckle
  • French: Île Buckle
  • German: Buckle Island
  • German: Buckle-Insel
  • Hausa: Tsibirin Buckle
  • Italian: Isola Buckle
  • Japanese: バックル島
  • Japanese: バッケル島
  • Ladin: Buckle Island
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Buckle Island
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Buckle Island
  • Norwegian: Buckle Island
  • Polish: Wyspa Buckle’a
  • Portuguese: Ilha de Buckle
  • Russian: Бакл
  • Spanish: Isla Buckle
  • Swedish: Buckle Island
  • Ukrainian: Бакл

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