Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island is the third largest island of Australia about 45 minutes by ferry off the coast of South Australia. The island is 160 km across, has an abundance of wildlife, natural scenery, wineries and beaches, and is approximately the size of Prince Edward Island in Atlantic Canada.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Robert Hoge, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in South Australia
- Also known as: “Borda Island”, “Decres Island”, “Ile Borda”, “Island of the dead”, “Isle Borda”, “Isle Decres”, “Kanguroo Island”, “Karta”, “Karta pintingga”, and “Pindinga”
Kangaroo Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Australia, Oceania
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kangaroo Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة كانغارو”
- Armenian: “Կենգուրու կղզի”
- Armenian: “Կենգուրուի կղզի”
- Azerbaijani: “Kenquru adası”
- Basque: “Kanguru uhartea”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Кенгуру”
- Belarusian: “Кенгуру”
- Bengali: “ক্যাঙ্গারু দ্বীপ”
- Bhojpuri: “कंगारू दीप”
- Bulgarian: “Кенгуру (остров)”
- Bulgarian: “Кенгуру”
- Catalan: “Illa dels Cangurs”
- Catalan: “illa Kangaroo”
- Catalan: “Illa Kangaroo”
- Cebuano: “Kangaroo Island”
- Chinese: “坎加魯島”
- Chinese: “坎加鲁岛”
- Chinese: “袋鼠島”
- Croatian: “Kangaroo”
- Czech: “Klokaní ostrov”
- Danish: “Kangaroo Island”
- Danish: “Kangaroo Øen”
- Dutch: “Kangaroo Island”
- Dutch: “Kangaroo-eiland”
- Dutch: “Kangoeroe-eiland”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره كانجارو”
- Esperanto: “Kanguru-Insulo”
- Estonian: “Kangaroo”
- Finnish: “Kengurusaari”
- French: “Île Borda”
- French: “Île Decrès”
- French: “Île Kangaroo”
- French: “Île Kangarou”
- French: “Ile Kangourou”
- French: “île Kangourou”
- French: “Île Kangourou”
- French: “Kangaroo Island”
- French: “Ile Decres” (historical)
- Galician: “Illa Kangaroo”
- Georgian: “კენგურუ”
- German: “Kangaroo Island”
- German: “Känguru-Insel”
- German: “Känguruh-Insel”
- German: “Känguruhinsel”
- German: “Känguruinsel”
- Greek: “Καγκουρό”
- Greek: “Νήσος Καγκουρό”
- Hausa: “Tsibirin Kangaroo”
- Hebrew: “אי הקנגורו”
- Hebrew: “אי הקנגרו”
- Hebrew: “קנגורו איילנד”
- Hebrew: “קנגורו”
- Hungarian: “Kangaroo-sziget”
- Hungarian: “Kenguru-sziget”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Kanguru”
- Italian: “isola dei Canguri”
- Italian: “Isola dei Canguri”
- Italian: “Kangaroo Island”
- Japanese: “カンガルー島”
- Kirghiz: “Кенгуру”
- Korean: “캥거루 섬”
- Korean: “캥거루섬”
- Latvian: “Ķenguru sala”
- Literary Chinese: “Île Kangourou”
- Literary Chinese: “Kangaroo eiland”
- Literary Chinese: “Kangaroo Island”
- Literary Chinese: “Langaroo Island”
- Literary Chinese: “袋鼠島”
- Lithuanian: “Kengūrų sala”
- Malayalam: “കംഗാരു ദ്വീപ്”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kangaroo Island”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kenguruøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kenguruøya”
- Norwegian: “Kenguruøya”
- Ossetian: “Кенгуру”
- Persian: “جزیره کانگورو”
- Polish: “Kangaroo Island”
- Polish: “Wyspa Kangura”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Canguru”
- Portuguese: “Ilha dos Cangurus”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Kangaroo”
- Portuguese: “Kangaroo Island”
- Russian: “Кенгуру”
- Russian: “Остров Кенгуру”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kangaroo”
- Slovak: “Kengurí ostrov”
- Spanish: “Isla Canguro”
- Spanish: “Isla del Canguro”
- Spanish: “Isla Kangaroo”
- Spanish: “Kangaroo Island”
- Swedish: “Kangaroo Island”
- Swedish: “Känguruön”
- Tamil: “கங்காரு தீவு”
- Turkish: “Kangaroo Adası (III)”
- Turkish: “Kangaroo Island”
- Turkish: “Kanguru Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Кенгуру”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Kangaroo”
- Welsh: “Ynys Kangaroo”
- Wu Chinese: “K-island”
- Wu Chinese: “Kangaroo Island”
- Wu Chinese: “袋鼠岛”
- Wu Chinese: “袋鼠島”
- Yue Chinese: “Kangaroo Island”
- Yue Chinese: “袋鼠島”
- “कंगारू दीप”
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