Gibbs Island
Gibbs Island lies 25 km southwest of Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. James Weddell, whose chart of the islands appeared in 1825, was apparently the first to use the current name of this island, discovered in 1821 by Russians who then named it Rozhnov Island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Rozhnova, ostrov”
Gibbs Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Gibbs Island” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Islla Gibbs”
- Azerbaijani: “Qibbs adası”
- Cebuano: “Gibbs”
- Chinese: “吉布斯島”
- Dutch: “Gibbs Island”
- French: “île Gibbs”
- French: “Île Gibbs”
- German: “Gibbs Island”
- Italian: “Gibbs Island (South Shetland Islands)”
- Italian: “Gibbs island”
- Italian: “Gibbs Island”
- Italian: “isola Gibbs”
- Italian: “Isola Gibbs”
- Japanese: “ギブス島”
- Latvian: “Gibsa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gibbs Island i Sør-Shetlandsøyane”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gibbs Island på Sør-Shetlandsøyane”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gibbs Island”
- Polish: “Gibbs Island”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Gibbs”
- Russian: “Джиббс (остров)”
- Russian: “Джиббс”
- Russian: “Остров Рожнова”
- Spanish: “Gibbs, isla”
- Spanish: “Isla Gibbs”
- Swedish: “Gibbs Island”
- Swedish: “Gibbs”
- Ukrainian: “Гіббс”
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