McKean Island
McKean Island is a small, uninhabited island in the Phoenix Islands, Republic of Kiribati. Its area is 57 hectares. Kiribati declared the Phoenix Islands Protected Area in 2006, with the park being expanded in 2008.- Type: Island
- Description: island
- Also known as: “Drummond’s Island”
McKean Island
- Categories: reef island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Phoenix Islands, Kiribati, Micronesia, Oceania
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Latitude
-3.5957° or 3° 35′ 45″ southLongitude
-174.123° or 174° 7′ 23″ westElevation
3 metres (10 feet)Open location code
6287CV3G+PQOpenStreetMap ID
way 22382841OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
7521600Wikidata ID
Q1050899
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Turkish—“McKean Island” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Востраў Мак-Кін”
- Belarusian: “Мак-Кін”
- Catalan: “Illa McKean”
- Cebuano: “McKean Island”
- Chinese: “麥基恩島”
- Chinese: “麦基恩岛”
- Croatian: “McKean”
- Dutch: “McKean”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مكيان ايسلاند”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مكيان”
- Finnish: “McKean”
- French: “McKean”
- Galician: “Illa McKean”
- German: “Arthur Island”
- German: “Dummond´s Island”
- German: “McKean”
- Greek: “ΜακΚήν Νήσος”
- Hebrew: “מקין”
- Italian: “isola di McKean”
- Italian: “Isola McKean”
- Japanese: “マッキーン島”
- Korean: “매킨섬”
- Korean: “맥킨 섬”
- Macedonian: “Мекин”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “McKean”
- Norwegian: “McKean”
- Persian: “جزیره مک کین”
- Portuguese: “Ilha McKean”
- Russian: “Мак-Кин”
- Russian: “Остров Мак-Кин”
- Spanish: “Isla McKean”
- Spanish: “McKean”
- Swedish: “McKean”
- Swedish: “McKeanatollen”
- Swedish: “McKeanön”
- Turkish: “McKean Adası”
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