Cockburn Island
Cockburn Island is an oval island 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 Antarctic Peninsula.
Wikimedia, Public domain.- Island
- …lies at an elevation of around 450 metres (1,480 feet)
- Description: Antarctic Island
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- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-64.20081° or 64° 12′ 3″ south
Longitude
-56.84001° or 56° 50′ 24″ west
Open location code
3875Q5X5+MX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural = coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place = island
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Cockburn Island” goes by many names.
Cockburn IslandCebuano
科克本島Chinese
科克本島 (南極洲)Chinese
Cockburn IslandDutch
コックバーン島Japanese
Cockburn IslandNorwegian Nynorsk
Cockburn Island i AntarktisNorwegian Nynorsk
остров КокбернRussian
Cockburn IslandSwedish
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