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Clipperton Island

Clipperton Island, also known as Île de la Passion is a small, ring-shaped atoll located 1,120 km southwest of in the Pacific Ocean. It has no permanent residents and is mainly visited by Mexican fishermen and French Navy patrols.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: French atoll in the Pacific Ocean
  • Also known as: “Clipperton”, “La Passion–Clipperton”, and “Passion Island”
  • Postal code: 98799

Clipperton Island

Latitude of center
10.3034° or 10° 18′ 12″ north
Longitude of center
-109.2172° or 109° 13′ 2″ west
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
way 160415456
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
4020092
Wiki­data ID
Q161258
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Clipperton Island” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Clipperton”
  • Arabic: “جزر كلبرتون”
  • Arabic: “جزر كليبرتون”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة كلبرتون”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة كليبرتون”
  • Arabic: “كلبرتون”
  • Armenian: “Կլիպերտոն”
  • Armenian: “Կլիպպերտոն”
  • Asturian: “Clipperton”
  • Asturian: “Islla Clipperton”
  • Azerbaijani: “Klipperton adası”
  • Basque: “Clipperton uhartea”
  • Basque: “Clipperton”
  • Basque: “Île de la Passion”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Кліпертон”
  • Belarusian: “Кліпертан”
  • Belarusian: “Кліпэртан”
  • Bengali: “ক্লিপারটন দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Bengali: “ক্লিপেরটন আইল্যান্ড”
  • Bosnian: “Clipperton”
  • Bosnian: “Ostrvo Clipperton”
  • Bosnian: “Otok Clipperton”
  • Breton: “Clipperton”
  • Breton: “Enez Clipperton”
  • Bulgarian: “Клипертон”
  • Catalan: “Clipperton”
  • Catalan: “illa Clipperton”
  • Catalan: “Illa Clipperton”
  • Catalan: “illa de la Passió”
  • Cebuano: “Clipperton”
  • Chinese: “克利珀頓島”
  • Chinese: “克利珀顿岛”
  • Chinese: “克里普頓島”
  • Cornish: “Ynys Clipperton”
  • Croatian: “Clipperton”
  • Croatian: “Otok Clipperton”
  • Czech: “Clippertonův ostrov”
  • Czech: “Ostrov Clipperton”
  • Danish: “Clipperton Island”
  • Danish: “Clippertonøen”
  • Danish: “Île Clipperton”
  • Dutch: “Clipperton”
  • Dutch: “Ile Clipperton”
  • Dutch: “Île Clipperton”
  • Dutch: “Ile de la Passion”
  • Dutch: “Île de la Passion”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزيرة كليبرتون”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره كليبرتون”
  • Erzya: “Клиппертон”
  • Esperanto: “Cliperton”
  • Esperanto: “Clipperton”
  • Esperanto: “Klipertono”
  • Estonian: “Clipperton”
  • Finnish: “Clipperton”
  • Finnish: “Clippertoninsaari”
  • French: “Clipperton”
  • French: “île Clipperton”
  • French: “Île Clipperton”
  • French: “Île de Clipperton”
  • French: “Île de la Passion”
  • French: “Île de La Passion”
  • French: “La Passion–Clipperton”
  • French: “La Passion”
  • Gagauz: “Clipperton adası”
  • Gagauz: “Clipperton Adası”
  • Galician: “Illa Clipperton”
  • Georgian: “კლიპერტონი”
  • German: “Clipperton-Insel”
  • German: “Clippertoninsel”
  • German: “Île Clipperton”
  • Greek: “Κλίππερτον Νήσος”
  • Greek: “Κλίππερτον”
  • Greek: “Νήσος Κλίπερτον”
  • Greek: “Νήσος Κλίππερτον”
  • Greek: “Πάθους Νήσος”
  • Gujarati: “ક્લિપરટન આઇલેન્ડ”
  • Gujarati: “ક્લિપેરટન આઇલેન્ડ”
  • Hebrew: “קליפרטון”
  • Hindi: “क्लिपरटन द्वीप”
  • Hungarian: “Clipperton-sziget”
  • Icelandic: “Clipperton-eyja”
  • Indonesian: “Clipperton”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Clipperton”
  • Interlingua: “Insula del Passion”
  • Italian: “Clipperton”
  • Italian: “Isola Clipperton”
  • Italian: “Isola di Clipperton”
  • Japanese: “クリッパートン島”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಲಿಪ್ಪರ್ಟನ್ ದ್ವೀಪ”
  • Kazakh: “Клиппертон”
  • Korean: “클리퍼턴섬”
  • Latin: “Insula Clipperton”
  • Latvian: “Klipertona sala”
  • Latvian: “Klipertona”
  • Latvian: “Klipertonas sala”
  • Latvian: “Pasjona”
  • Latvian: “Pasjonas sala”
  • Ligurian: “Clipperton”
  • Lithuanian: “Klipertono sala”
  • Macedonian: “Клипертон”
  • Malay: “Pulau Clipperton”
  • Maltese: “Clipperton”
  • Maltese: “Gżira Clipperton”
  • Marathi: “क्लिपरटोन आइसलँड”
  • Marathi: “क्लिपरटोन आईसलँड”
  • Mingrelian: “კლიპერტონი”
  • Northern Frisian: “Clipperton-Eilun”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Clipperton Island”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Clipperton”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Clippertonøya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Île Clipperton”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Clipperton Island”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Clipperton”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Clippertonøya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Île de Clipperton”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Île de la Passion”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Isla de la Pasión”
  • Norwegian: “Clipperton”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Clipperton”
  • Persian: “جزیره کلیپرتون”
  • Persian: “جزیرهٔ کلیپرتون”
  • Picard: “Île Clipperton”
  • Polish: “Clipperton”
  • Polish: “Île Clipperton”
  • Polish: “Île de la Passion”
  • Polish: “Wyspa Clipperton”
  • Polish: “Wyspa Clippertona”
  • Portuguese: “Clipperton”
  • Portuguese: “Île Clipperton”
  • Portuguese: “Île de Clipperton”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Clipperton”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Clipperton”
  • Romanian: “Clipperton”
  • Romanian: “Insula Clipperton”
  • Russian: “Клипертон”
  • Russian: “Клиппертон”
  • Russian: “Остров Клиппертон”
  • Russian: “Остров Страсти”
  • Sardinian: “Ìsula Clipperton”
  • Scots: “Clipperton Island”
  • Serbian: “Ostrvo Kliperton”
  • Serbian: “Острво Клипертон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Clipperton”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ostrvo Kliperton”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Otok Clipperton”
  • Shan: “ၵုၼ်ၶလိပ်ႉပႃႇတၼ်ႇ”
  • Shan: “မူႇၵုၼ် ၶလိပ်ႉပႃႇတၼ်ႇ”
  • Sinhala: “ක්ලිපර්ටන් දූපත”
  • Sinhala: “ක්ලිප්පර්ටන් දූපත”
  • Slovak: “Clipperton”
  • Slovak: “Clippertonov ostrov”
  • Slovenian: “Clippertonov otok”
  • Slovenian: “Otok Clipperton”
  • Spanish: “Clipperton”
  • Spanish: “Isla Clipperton”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Clipperton”
  • Spanish: “Isla de la Pasion”
  • Spanish: “Isla de la Pasión”
  • Spanish: “Isla de La Passion”
  • Sundanese: “Pulo Clipperton”
  • Swahili: “Clipperton”
  • Swedish: “Clipperton Island”
  • Swedish: “Clippertonön”
  • Tamil: “கிளிப்பெர்டோன் ஐஸ்லாந்து”
  • Tamil: “கிளிப்பேர்டோன் ஐஸ்லாந்து”
  • Tatar: “Клиппертон утравы”
  • Telugu: “క్లిప్పర్టన్ దీవి”
  • Telugu: “క్లిప్పర్టన్ దీవులు”
  • Thai: “เกาะกลีแปร์ตอน”
  • Tibetan: “ཁེ་ལེབ་ཕུ་ཏེན་གླིང་ཕྲན་”
  • Turkish: “Clipperton Adası”
  • Turkish: “ClippertonAdası”
  • Ukrainian: “Кліппертон”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ کلپرٹن”
  • Venetian: “Clipperton”
  • Vietnamese: “Clipperton”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Clipperton”
  • Welsh: “Ynys Clipperton”
  • Western Panjabi: “کلِپّرٹن ٹاپو”
  • Western Panjabi: “کلپرٹن جزیرہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “克利珀顿岛”
  • Xhosa: “Clipperton”
  • Yoruba: “Clipperton Island”
  • Yoruba: “Erékùṣù Clipperton”
  • Yue Chinese: “克利珀頓島”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Clipperton Island”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.