Dassen Island
Dassen Island is an island and nature reserve in the Western Cape in South Africa, 55 km north of Cape Town. It is home to 68,800 African Penguins and 0 people. The majority of the world's African Penguins live on the island.Photo: A3alb, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dassen Island
- Type: Island
- Description: South African island
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-33.4232° or 33° 25′ 24″ southLongitude
18.0855° or 18° 5′ 8″ eastElevation
8 metres (26 feet)Open location code
4FRWH3GP+P5OpenStreetMap ID
way 15093337OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
3368950Wikidata ID
Q2671186
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Spanish—“Dassen Island” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Dasseneiland”
- Arabic: “جزيرة داسن”
- Bulgarian: “Дасенеиланд”
- Cebuano: “Dasseneiland”
- Chinese: “達森島”
- Dutch: “Dassen Island”
- Egyptian Arabic: “داسين”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Dassen”
- French: “Ile de Dassen”
- French: “île de Dassen”
- French: “Île de Dassen”
- German: “Dassen Island”
- Hausa: “Tsibirin Dassen”
- Italian: “Dassen Island”
- Italian: “Isola Dassen”
- Japanese: “ダッセン島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dassen Island”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dassenøya”
- Norwegian: “Dassenøya”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Dassen”
- Russian: “Дассен”
- Russian: “Дассенэйланд”
- Spanish: “Isla Dassen”
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