Antarctica

Gnomon Island

Gnomon Island is a small rocky island lying just north of , on in the . It was charted by Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition, 1914–1916, and so named by them because when viewed from Point Wild the shape of the feature is suggestive of a gnomon, the elevated arm of a sundial.
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  • Type: Islet
  • Description: island on Elephant island in Shetland Islands, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “The Gnomon”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wild, Point.

Locality
Photo: Godot13, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Point Wild is a point 11 km west of , 2 km east of Saddleback Point, and directly adjacent to the on the north coast of .

Gnomon Island

Latitude
-61.09634° or 61° 5′ 47″ south
Longitude
-54.86044° or 54° 51′ 38″ west
Open location code
38C7W43Q+FR
Open­Street­Map ID
way 720085680
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bare_rock
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­islet
Geo­Names ID
6633959
Wiki­data ID
Q5574376
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Satellite Map

Discover Gnomon Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Gnomon Island” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Gnomon”
  • Chinese: “諾蒙島”
  • Dutch: “Gnomon Island”
  • German: “Gnomon Island”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gnomon Island”
  • Spanish: “Gnomon, islote”
  • Swedish: “Gnomon Island”
  • Swedish: “Gnomon”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Banjo Rock and Pinnacle Rock.

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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 “Gnomon Island”. Photo: ravas51, CC BY-SA 2.0.