Santa Cruz Islands
The Santa Cruz Islands form an archipelago in Temotu Province, Solomon Islands. They lie approximately 250 miles to the southeast of the Solomon Islands archipelago, just north of the archipelago of Vanuatu and are considered part of the Vanuatu rain forests ecoregion.- Type: Island
- Description: island group in the Pacific Ocean
- Also known as: “Iles Santa Cruz”, “Ilhas de Santa Cruz”, “Nitendi”, “Queen Charlotte Islands”, “Santa Cruz eilanden”, “Svetokriški otoki”, “Санта Круз”, and “サンタ・クルーズ諸島”
- Historically known as: “Santa Cruz Group”
Santa Cruz Islands
- Categories: island group and landform
- Location: Solomon Islands, Melanesia, Oceania
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Latitude
-11.3328° or 11° 19′ 58″ south
Longitude
166.3763° or 166° 22′ 35″ east
Open location code
5VW8M98G+VG
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Santa Cruz Islands” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزر سانتا كروز”
- Armenian: “Սանտա Կրուս”
- Asturian: “Islles Santa Cruz”
- Basque: “Santa Cruz uharteak”
- Belarusian: “астравы Санта-Крус”
- Breton: “Inizi Santa Cruz”
- Bulgarian: “Санта Крус”
- Catalan: “Illes Santa Cruz”
- Cebuano: “Santa Cruz Islands”
- Chinese: “圣克鲁斯群岛”
- Chinese: “聖克魯斯群島”
- Czech: “Santa Cruz”
- Danish: “Santa Cruz-øerne”
- Dutch: “Santa Cruz-eilanden”
- Dutch: “Santa Cruzeilanden”
- Esperanto: “Santakruzaj insuloj”
- Finnish: “Santa Cruzin saaret”
- French: “îles Santa Cruz”
- French: “Îles Santa Cruz”
- Galician: “Illas Santa Cruz”
- Georgian: “სანტა-კრუსის კუნძულები”
- German: “Santa-Cruz-Inseln”
- Greek: “Νησιά Σάντα Κρουζ”
- Greek: “Νήσοι Σάντα Κρουζ”
- Hebrew: “איי סנטה קרוז”
- Hungarian: “Santa Cruz-szigetek”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Santa Cruz”
- Italian: “Isole Santa Cruz”
- Japanese: “サンタクルーズ諸島”
- Korean: “산타크루스 제도”
- Korean: “산타크루즈 제도”
- Lithuanian: “Santa Kruso salos”
- Lower Sorbian: “Santakrucowe kupy”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Santa Cruz-øyene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Santa Cruz-øyane”
- Norwegian: “Santa Cruz-øyene”
- Polish: “Wyspy Santa Cruz”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Santa Cruz”
- Russian: “Острова Санта-Крус”
- Slovenian: “Otočje Santa Cruz”
- Spanish: “Islas Santa Cruz”
- Swedish: “Santa Cruzöarna”
- Ukrainian: “Острови Санта-Крус”
- Ukrainian: “Санта-Крус”
- Upper Sorbian: “Santakrucowe kupy”
- Western Frisian: “Santa Cruzeilannen”
- Western Mari: “Санта-Крус ошмаотывлӓ”
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