Kuş Island
Kuş Island, also called Arter Island, is a small island in Lake Van, Turkey. It is now uninhabited but formerly contained a small monastery, the ruins of which can still be seen.- Islet
- …lies at an elevation of around 1,670 metres (5,480 feet)
- Description: island in Lake Van, Turkey
- Also known as“Kuşadası”“Kuzu Adasi”
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Latitude
38.36254° or 38° 21′ 45″ north
Longitude
42.99348° or 42° 59′ 37″ east
Open location code
8HC49X7V+29
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bare_rock
OpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Kuş Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة كوش”
- Armenian: “Առտեր կղզի”
- Cebuano: “Kuzu Adası”
- Croatian: “Kuş (otok)”
- Croatian: “Kuş”
- Dutch: “Kuş Island”
- French: “Kuş”
- German: “Arter”
- German: “Kuş Adası”
- Kurdish: “Artî”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Arterøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kuşøya”
- Persian: “جزیرهٔ قوش”
- Persian: “جزیرهٔ کوش”
- Persian: “کوش آداسی”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Cuxe”
- Romanian: “Arter”
- Russian: “Артер”
- Spanish: “Isla Kuş”
- Turkish: “Arter Adası”
- Turkish: “Kuş Adası, Van”
- Turkish: “Kuş Adası”
- Turkish: “Kuzu Adası”
- Western Armenian: “Առտէր կղզի”
- Western Armenian: “Արտեր կղզի”
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