Diomedea Island
Diomedea Island is a small island lying in Ardley Cove, Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The Soviet Antarctic Expedition called the feature "Ostrov Al'batros" or "Albatross Island" in 1968, but the English form duplicates a name in the Bay of Isles.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Holy Trinity Church and Chapel of Saint Mary Queen of Peace.
Holy Trinity Church
Church
Photo: ArJuna, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Holy Trinity Church is a small Russian Orthodox church on King George Island near Bellingshausen Station, a Russian research station in Antarctica. It is one of the eight churches on Antarctica and the southernmost Eastern Orthodox church in the world.
Chapel of Saint Mary Queen of Peace
Church
Photo: Carlos78chile, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The St. Mary Queen of Peace Chapel is a Catholic chapel located in Villa Las Estrellas, in the Chilean Antarctic Territory, which includes in the commune of Antártica, within the Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica, about 1580 km from Punta Arenas.
Slalom Lake
Lake
Slalom Lake is a small lake 0.25 nautical miles north of Ardley Cove, Fildes Peninsula, King George Island. Located near the Soviet Antarctic Expedition Bellingshausen Station, erected 1968, the lake was named "Ozero Slalomnoye".
Places in the Area
Nearby places include President Eduardo Frei Montalva Base.
President Eduardo Frei Montalva Base
Neighborhood
Photo: Mefisto29, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva is the most important Antarctic base of Chile. It is located at Fildes Peninsula, an ice-free area, in front of Fildes Bay, at the west end of King George Island, South Shetland Islands.
Diomedea Island
- Type: Islet
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-62.20386° or 62° 12′ 14″ southLongitude
-58.94854° or 58° 56′ 55″ westOpen location code
3893Q3W2+FHOpenStreetMap ID
way 345557395OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Diomedea Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Torta”
- Chinese: “信天翁島”
- Dutch: “Diomedea Island”
- French: “Île Diomedea”
- German: “Diomedea Insel”
- German: “Diomedea Island”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Diomedea Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Diomedea Island”
- Norwegian: “Diomedea Island”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Albatross”
- Russian: “Остров Альбатрос”
- Spanish: “Isla Torta”
- Spanish: “Torta, isla”
- Swedish: “Diomedea Island”
- Swedish: “Torta (ö)”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 “Diomedea Island”. Photo: LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0.