Janus Island
Janus Island is a rocky island 370 m long, lying 1 km south of Litchfield Island, off the southwest coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago. Janus Island is the southernmost of the islands on the west side of the entrance to Arthur Harbor.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Split Rock and Litchfield Island.
Split Rock
Islet
Split Rock is a distinctive oval-shaped rock, cleanly split in a north–south direction to the water line, lying 0.1 nautical miles northwest of Janus Island, off the southwest coast of Anvers Island.
Litchfield Island
Islet
Photo: Parnikoza, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Litchfield Island is a rocky island 0.9 kilometres long and rising to 50 m, lying in Arthur Harbour, 0.9 kilometres south of Norsel Point, off the south-west coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica.
Torgersen Island
Islet
Torgersen Island is a small rocky island lying just east of Litchfield Island in the entrance to Arthur Harbour, off the south-west coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica.
Janus Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island of the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Janus Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Janus Island”
- Chinese: “傑納斯島”
- Dutch: “Janus Island”
- German: “Janus Island”
- Hebrew: “יאנוס”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Janus Island”
- Spanish: “Isla Janus”
- Swedish: “Janus Island”
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