Hedgehog Island
Moubray Bay is a bay in the western Ross Sea, indenting the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica, between Cape Roget and Cape Hallett. It was discovered in 1841 by Sir James Clark Ross and named by him for George H.Hedgehog Island
- Type: Island
- Description: Island in Victoria Land, Antarctica
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-72.20568° or 72° 12′ 20″ south
Longitude
169.8814° or 169° 52′ 53″ east
Open location code
2VVFQVVJ+PH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Hedgehog Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Hedgehog Island (pulo sa Antarctica)”
- Cebuano: “Hedgehog Island”
- Chinese: “赫奇霍格島”
- Dutch: “Hedgehog Island”
- German: “Hedgehog Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hedgehog Island”
- Swedish: “Hedgehog Island”
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