Rockall

Rockall is a 17.15-metre-high, uninhabitable granite islet in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is 301 kilometres west of , ; 423 kilometres north-west of , ; and 700 kilometres south of .
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  • Type: Volcano with an elevation of 56 feet
  • Description: uninhabited, remote rocky islet in the North Atlantic Ocean
  • Also known as: “Ròcabarraigh”, “Rockall island”, and “Rockall islet”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hasselwood Rock and Helen’s Reef.

Reef
is a 1-metre-high uninhabitable skerry 200 metres North of in the North-east Atlantic Ocean.

Reef
Helen's Reef is a series of skerries in the North Atlantic, two kilometres northeast of the larger islet of and outcrop of , within the United Kingdom's exclusive economic zone.

Rockall

Latitude
57.5963° or 57° 35′ 47″ north
Longitude
-13.6872° or 13° 41′ 14″ west
Elevation
56 feet (17 metres)
Open location code
9C98H8W7+G4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5360429276
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Wiki­data ID
Q206137
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Satellite Map

Discover Rockall from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Rockall” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “روكال”
  • Asturian: “islla Rockall”
  • Asturian: “Rockall”
  • Basque: “Rockall”
  • Breton: “Rocabarraigh”
  • Breton: “Rockall”
  • Catalan: “Rockall”
  • Cebuano: “Rockall”
  • Chinese: “Rockall”
  • Chinese: “罗卡尔岛”
  • Chinese: “罗科尔”
  • Chinese: “罗科尔岛”
  • Chinese: “羅卡爾島”
  • Chinese: “羅科爾”
  • Chinese: “羅科爾島”
  • Czech: “Rockall”
  • Danish: “Rockall”
  • Dutch: “Rockall”
  • Esperanto: “Rockall”
  • Faroese: “Rockall”
  • Faroese: “Rokkurin”
  • Finnish: “Rockall”
  • French: “Rockall”
  • French: “Waveland”
  • Galician: “Rockall”
  • German: “Rockall”
  • Greek: “Ρόκαλ”
  • Hausa: “Rockall”
  • Hebrew: “רוקול”
  • Hungarian: “Rockall”
  • Icelandic: “Rockall”
  • Indonesian: “Rockall”
  • Irish: “Rocal”
  • Italian: “Rockall”
  • Japanese: “ロックオール島”
  • Japanese: “ロッコール”
  • Japanese: “ロッコール島”
  • Korean: “로칼섬”
  • Lithuanian: “Rokalo sala”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rockall”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rockall”
  • Norwegian: “Rockall”
  • Persian: “راکال”
  • Polish: “Rockall”
  • Portuguese: “Rockall”
  • Romanian: “Rockall”
  • Russian: “Роколл”
  • Scots: “Rockall”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sgeir Rocail”
  • Serbian: “Рокол”
  • Silesian: “Rockall”
  • Slovak: “Rockall”
  • Spanish: “Rockall”
  • Swedish: “Rockall”
  • Turkish: “Rockall”
  • Ukrainian: “Рокол”
  • Vietnamese: “Rockall”
  • Welsh: “Rockall”
  • Western Frisian: “Rockall”
  • Western Panjabi: “روکال”

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