Cockburn Island

Cockburn Island is an oval 2.7 kilometres long, consisting of a high plateau with steep slopes surmounted on the northwest side by a pyramidal peak 450 m high, lying in the north-east entrance to Admiralty Sound, south of the north-east end of the .
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: Antarctic Island
  • Also known as: “Cockburn Island i Antarktis”

Cockburn Island

Latitude
-64.20081° or 64° 12′ 3″ south
Longitude
-56.84001° or 56° 50′ 24″ west
Elevation
450 metres (1,476 feet)
Open location code
3875Q5X5+MX
Open­Street­Map ID
way 223707148
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
6631308
Wiki­data ID
Q1105260
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Cockburn Island” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Cockburn Island”
  • Chinese: “科克本島 (南極洲)”
  • Chinese: “科克本島”
  • Dutch: “Cockburn Island”
  • German: “Cockburn-Insel”
  • Japanese: “コックバーン島”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cockburn Island”
  • Russian: “остров Кокберн”
  • Spanish: “Cockburn, Isla”
  • Spanish: “Isla Cockburn”
  • Swedish: “Cockburn Island”

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