Gamma Island
Gamma Island is an island, 1.6 kilometres long, which marks the southwestern extremity of the Melchior Islands in the Palmer Archipelago. This island was first roughly charted and named "Ile Gouts" by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, but that name has not survived in usage.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kappa Island and Alpha Island.
Kappa Island
Islet
Kappa Island is an island, nearly 0.5 nautical miles long, lying immediately south of Beta Island and close east of the Theta Islands in the Melchior Islands of the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica.
Alpha Island
Islet
Alpha Island, also known as Isla Huidobro, is a small island lying between Epsilon Island and Delta Island in the Melchior Islands, Palmer Archipelago.
Beta Island
Islet
Beta Island is a small island which lies immediately north of Kappa Island and close southwest of Alpha Island in the Melchior Islands, Palmer Archipelago.
Gamma Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Antarctica
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-64.32907° or 64° 19′ 45″ southLongitude
-62.99053° or 62° 59′ 26″ westOpen location code
377VM2C5+9QOpenStreetMap ID
way 224775134OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Gamma Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Observatorio (pulo sa Antarctica)”
- Cebuano: “Observatorio”
- Chinese: “伽馬島”
- Dutch: “Gamma-eiland”
- French: “Île Gamma (Antarctique)”
- French: “île Gamma”
- French: “Île Gamma”
- German: “Gammainsel”
- Italian: “Isola Gamma”
- Japanese: “Gamma島”
- Latvian: “Gamma Island”
- Latvian: “Gammas sala”
- Latvian: “Gutsa sala”
- Latvian: “Île Gouts”
- Latvian: “Isla Gamma”
- Latvian: “Isla Observatorio”
- Latvian: “Observatorijas sala”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gamma Island”
- Spanish: “Gamma, Isla”
- Spanish: “Isla Observatorio”
- Spanish: “Observatorio, isla”
- Swedish: “Gamma Island, Antarktis”
- Swedish: “Observatorio”
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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 “Gamma Island”. Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.