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.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Cockburn Island
- Type: Island
- Description: Antarctic Island
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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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 i Antarktis”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cockburn Island”
- Russian: “остров Кокберн”
- Spanish: “Cockburn, Isla”
- Spanish: “Isla Cockburn”
- Swedish: “Cockburn Island”
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