Glorioso Islands
The Glorioso Islands are a small atoll in the Indian Ocean off East Africa, near Madagascar, part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Archipelago
- Description: archipelago in the Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean
- Also known as: “Glorieuses” and “Glorieuses Archipelago”
Glorioso Islands
- Categories: disputed territory and locality
- Location: Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean, French Southern and Antarctic Lands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
-11.5541° or 11° 33′ 15″ southLongitude of center
47.3334° or 47° 20′ 0″ eastOpenStreetMap ID
node 4078303462OpenStreetMap feature
natural=atollOpenStreetMap feature
place=archipelagoGeoNames ID
1024037Wikidata ID
Q236601
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Glorioso Islands” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزر غلوريوسو”
- Arabic: “جزر كلوريوسو”
- Armenian: “Գլորյոզ”
- Asturian: “Islles Glorioses”
- Azerbaijani: “Qloryoz adaları”
- Basque: “Glorioso Uharteak”
- Basque: “Uharte loriatsuak”
- Belarusian: “Астравы Глар’ёз”
- Belarusian: “Астравы Гларыёса”
- Belarusian: “Глар’ёз”
- Belarusian: “Гларыёса”
- Breton: “Inizi Glorius”
- Catalan: “illes Glorioses”
- Catalan: “Illes Glorioses”
- Cebuano: “Glorioso Islands”
- Cebuano: “Îles Glorieuses (kapuloan sa French Southern Territories)”
- Cebuano: “Îles Glorieuses”
- Chinese: “Géluòliàosuǒ”
- Chinese: “光荣群岛”
- Chinese: “格洛廖索”
- Chinese: “格洛里厄斯群岛”
- Chinese: “格洛里厄斯群島”
- Croatian: “Glorieuses”
- Croatian: “Glorioso”
- Croatian: “Îles Glorieuses”
- Croatian: “Otočje Glorieuses”
- Croatian: “Otočje Glorioso”
- Croatian: “Otok Glorioso”
- Czech: “Glorieuses”
- Czech: “Gloriózy”
- Czech: “Îles Glorieuses”
- Czech: “Ostrovy Glorioso”
- Danish: “Glorioso øerne”
- Dutch: “Glorieuses”
- Dutch: “Glorieuzen”
- Dutch: “Iles Glorieuses”
- Dutch: “Îles Glorieuses”
- Esperanto: “Glorioso”
- Esperanto: “Insularo Glorioso”
- Finnish: “Gloriososaaret”
- French: “Iles Glorieuses”
- French: “îles Glorieuses”
- French: “Îles Glorieuses”
- Galician: “Illas Gloriosas”
- Georgian: “გლორიოსი”
- German: “Glorioso-Inseln”
- German: “Iles Glorieuses”
- German: “Îles Glorieuses”
- German: “Les Glorieuses”
- Greek: “Γκλοριόζος Νήσοι”
- Greek: “Ένδοξες Νήσοι”
- Greek: “Ένδοξοι Νήσοι”
- Hebrew: “איי גלורייז”
- Hindi: “ग्लोरियोस द्वीपसमूह”
- Hungarian: “Glorioso-szigetek”
- Indonesian: “Glorioso Island”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Glorioso”
- Italian: “Isole Gloriose”
- Japanese: “グロリオソ島”
- Japanese: “グロリオソ諸島”
- Kirghiz: “Глорьез”
- Korean: “글로리오소 제도”
- Kurdish: “Giravên Glorioso”
- Latvian: “Glorjēzu salas”
- Ligurian: “Isoe Gloriose”
- Ligurian: “Isoe Glorioso”
- Lithuanian: “Glorioso salos”
- Macedonian: “Глориозо”
- Macedonian: “Глорјез”
- Malagasy: “Nosy Glorieuses”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Glorieusesøyene”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Îles Glorieuses”
- Norwegian: “Glorieuseøyene”
- Norwegian: “Glorieusesøyene”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Illas Gloriosas”
- Persian: “جزایر گلورئیز”
- Persian: “جزایر گلوریوسو”
- Polish: “Glorieuses”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Gloriosas”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Glorioso”
- Romanian: “Insulele Glorioase”
- Russian: “Глориосо”
- Russian: “Глорьез острова”
- Russian: “Глорьёз острова”
- Russian: “Глорьез”
- Russian: “Глорьёз”
- Russian: “Острова Глориосо”
- Russian: “Острова Глорьез”
- Russian: “Острова Глорьёз”
- Scots: “Glorioso Islands”
- Serbian: “Острва Глориозо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Glorieuses”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Îles Glorieuses”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Otočje Glorioso”
- Slovak: “Glorieuses”
- Slovenian: “Archipel des Glorieuses”
- Slovenian: “Îles Glorieuses”
- Slovenian: “otoki Glorieuses”
- Spanish: “Islas Gloriosas”
- Swedish: “Glorieuses”
- Swedish: “Glorieusesöarna”
- Turkish: “Glorioso Adaları”
- Turkish: “Glorioso Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Глорйоз”
- Ukrainian: “Глорьйоз”
- Ukrainian: “Острови Глор’єз”
- Ukrainian: “Острови Глорйоз”
- Urdu: “جزائر گلوریوسو”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Glorieuses”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Glorioso”
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