Melchior Islands
The Melchior Islands are a group of many low, ice-covered islands lying near the center of Dallmann Bay between Brabant Island and Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jorval, Public domain.
- Type: Island
- Description: group of many low, ice-covered islands
- Also known as: “Melchior, archipielago” and “Melchior, archipiélago”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bremen Island and Gamma Island.
Bremen Island
Islet
Bremen Island, also known as Zeta Island, is a 1 km2 or 100 ha uninhabited island, part of the Melchior Islands in the Southern Ocean along the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Gamma Island
Island
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.
Gamma Island is an island, 1.6 kilometres long, which marks the southwestern extremity of the Melchior Islands in the Palmer Archipelago. This island was first roughly charted and named "Ile Gouts" by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, but that name has not survived in usage.
Delta Island
Islet
Delta Island is an island 1 kilometre long, lying close southeast of Lambda Island and east of Alpha Island in the Melchior Islands, Palmer Archipelago.
Melchior Islands
- Categories: archipelago, locality, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-64.33133° or 64° 19′ 53″ southLongitude
-62.93411° or 62° 56′ 3″ westOpen location code
377VM398+F9OpenStreetMap ID
node 2700678165OpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
6637952Wikidata ID
Q1919137
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Melchior Islands” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزر ميلشيور”
- Arabic: “جزر_ميلشيور”
- Cebuano: “Melchior”
- Chinese: “梅爾基奧群島”
- Dutch: “Melchioreilanden”
- Esperanto: “Melkiorinsuloj”
- French: “îles Melchior”
- French: “Îles Melchior”
- German: “Melchior-Inseln”
- Hebrew: “איי מלכיור”
- Latvian: “Archipiélago Melchior”
- Latvian: “Îles Melchior”
- Latvian: “Melchior Islands”
- Latvian: “Melhiora arhipelāgs”
- Latvian: “Melhiora salas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Melchior Islands”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melchior Islands”
- Norwegian: “Melchior Islands”
- Polish: “Wyspy Melchiora”
- Spanish: “Archipielago de Melchior”
- Spanish: “Archipiélago de Melchior”
- Spanish: “Archipielago Melchior”
- Spanish: “Archipiélago Melchior”
- Swedish: “Melchior Islands”
- Swedish: “Melchior”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Bremenkanal and Melchior.
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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 “Melchior Islands”. Photo: Jorval, Public domain.