Acuña Island
Acuña Island, is a small island which lies 0.4 kilometres south of Point Rae, off the south coast of Laurie Island in the South Orkney Islands. Charted in 1903 by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition under William Speirs Bruce, who named it after Hugo A.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: small island south of Point Rae, off the south coast of Laurie Island in the South Orkney Islands
- Also known as: “Acuna, islote”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ailsa Craig.
Ailsa Craig
Islet
Ailsa Craig is a precipitous island 1 mile south of Point Rae, off the south coast of Laurie Island in the South Orkney Islands. Charted in 1903 by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition under William Speirs Bruce, who named it for the island in the Firth of Clyde in Scotland. Ailsa Craig is situated 4 km southwest of Acuña Island.
Acuña Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“Acuña Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Acuña”
- Chinese: “阿庫尼亞島”
- Dutch: “Acuña Island”
- German: “Acuña-Insel”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Acuna Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Acuña Island”
- Polish: “Acuña Island”
- Spanish: “Acuña, islote”
- Swedish: “Acuña (ö)”
- Swedish: “Acuña Island”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Acuña”
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Highlights include Rae, Point and Valette Island.
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