Bakewell Island
Bakewell Island is a small ice-covered island near Princess Astrid Coast and east of Lyddan Island in the south part of the Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf. The island was discovered November 5, 1967, in the course of a U.S. Navy Squadron VXE-6 flight over the coast in LC-130 aircraft, and was plotted by the United States Geological Survey from air photos taken at that time.- Island
- …is also known as “Bakewelloya”
- Description: island near Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-74.88333° or 74° 53′ south
Longitude
-19.16667° or 19° 10′ west
Open location code
2CQ24R8M+M8
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Bakewell Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Bakewelløya”
- Chinese: “貝克韋爾島”
- Dutch: “Bakewell Island”
- German: “Bakewell Island”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bakewelløya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bakewelløya”
- Swedish: “Bakewelløya”
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