Bugge Islands
The Bugge Islands are a small group of ice-covered islands lying close off the front of Wordie Ice Shelf and between 7 and 20 km northwest of Mount Guernsey, off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.Places of Interest
Highlights include Aldea Island.
Aldea Island
Island
Aldea Island is the central of the three Bugge Islands, off Wordie Ice Shelf, Fallières Coast, Antarctic Peninsula. The island was named Isla Aldea by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition, 1947, probably after Sargento Juan de Dios Aldea, of the Chilean Navy, one of the heroes of the naval battle of Iquique, May 21, 1879. Aldea Island is situated 3½ km west of Bugge Islands.
Bugge Islands
- Type: Island
- Description: small group of Antarctic islands
- Categories: archipelago and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Spanish—“Bugge Islands” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Islla Budgge”
- Asturian: “Islles Bugge”
- Cebuano: “Bugge”
- Chinese: “巴格群島”
- German: “Bugge Islands”
- German: “Ruth Bugge Islands”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bugge Islands”
- Spanish: “Bugge, islas”
- Spanish: “Islas Bugge”
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