Heroína Island
The Danger Islands are a group of islands lying 13 nautical miles east-south-east of Joinville Island near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Heroina Island” and “Heroina, islote”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Beagle Island.
Beagle Island
Island
Beagle Island is an island lying northeast of Darwin Island in the Danger Islands off the east end of Joinville Island. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1963 after HMS Beagle, due to its proximity to Darwin Island.
Heroína Island
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-63.39313° or 63° 23′ 35″ southLongitude
-54.60605° or 54° 36′ 22″ westElevation
5 metres (16 feet)Open location code
3887J94V+PHOpenStreetMap ID
way 223706593OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
6634840Wikidata ID
Q5743617
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Satellite Map
Discover Heroína Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Heroína Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Heroína”
- Chinese: “赫羅伊納島”
- Croatian: “Heroína”
- Dutch: “Heroína Island”
- German: “Heroína-Insel”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Heroína Island”
- Slovenian: “otok Heroina”
- Spanish: “Ercilla, Islote”
- Spanish: “Heroína, islote”
- Swedish: “Heroína Island”
- Swedish: “Heroína”
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