Cave Island
Cave Island is an island marked by a large cavern in its south side, which is the second largest of the Meade Islands lying in the north entrance to McFarlane Strait, off Archar Peninsula on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Pisanitsa Island and Zverino Island.
Pisanitsa Island
Islet
Pisanitsa Island is the rocky island in the Meade group off Archar Peninsula, the northwest extremity of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands extending 270 m in southwest-northeast direction and 60 m wide.
Zverino Island
Islet
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Zverino Island is the largest and westernmost island in the Meade group lying in the north entrance to McFarlane Strait in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
Greaves Peak
Peak
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Greaves Peak is a conspicuous sharp, dark, double-pointed rocky peak rising to 240 m in the northwest of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Greaves Peak is situated 4 km east of Cave Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ficheto Point.
Ficheto Point
Locality
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Ficheto Point is an ice-free point on the northeast coast of Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island, Antarctica forming the southeast side of the entrance to Dragon Cove. Ficheto Point is situated 3 km southwest of Cave Island.
Cave Island
- Type: Islet
- Description: island in Antarctica
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-62.4497° or 62° 26′ 59″ southLongitude
-60.06138° or 60° 3′ 41″ westOpen location code
379XHW2Q+4COpenStreetMap ID
way 224764512OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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Satellite Map
Discover Cave Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Cave Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Cave Island (pulo sa Antarctica)”
- Cebuano: “Cave Island”
- Chinese: “凱夫島”
- Dutch: “Cave Island”
- German: “Cave Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cave Island”
- Swedish: “Cave Island, Antarktis”
- Swedish: “Cave Island”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Кейв”
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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 “Cave Island”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.