Burke Island
King Peninsula is an ice-covered peninsula, 100 nautical miles long and 20 nautical miles wide, lying south of Thurston Island and forming the south side of Peacock Sound, Antarctica.Photo: Jane Beitler, CC BY 2.0.
Burke Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in the Amundsen Sea
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-73.07729° or 73° 4′ 38″ southLongitude
-104.84454° or 104° 50′ 40″ westOpen location code
25RQW5F4+35OpenStreetMap ID
way 222797856OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Swedish—“Burke Island” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Enez Burke”
- Cebuano: “Burke Island (pulo sa Antarctica)”
- Cebuano: “Burke Island”
- Chinese: “伯克島”
- Dutch: “Burke Island”
- French: “île Burke”
- French: “Île Burke”
- German: “Burke Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Burke Island”
- Polish: “Burke Island”
- Spanish: “Isla Burke”
- Swedish: “Burke Island”
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