Rebirth Island
Vozrozhdeniya Island is a peninsula and former lake island in the Aral Sea. The former island's territory is split between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. In 1954, the Soviet Union constructed a biological weapons test site called Aralsk-7 there and on the neighbouring Komsomolskiy Island, which also no longer exists as an island.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Locality
- Description: former island in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
- Also known as: “Renaissance Island”, “Vozrojdeniya Orol”, “Vozrojdeniye atawı - Vozrojdenïe aralı”, “Vozrozhdeniya island”, “Vozrozhdeniya Island”, and “Vozrozhdeniye Araly”
Rebirth Island
- Categories: former island, island, peninsula, sand, and historic site
- Location: Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
45.10304° or 45° 6′ 11″ northLongitude
59.24221° or 59° 14′ 32″ eastOpen location code
8HQX463R+6VOpenStreetMap ID
way 174086661OpenStreetMap feature
historic=islandOpenStreetMap feature
natural=sandOpenStreetMap feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q844667
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Rebirth Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة فوزروزدنيا”
- Azerbaijani: “Vozrajdeniya adası”
- Bulgarian: “Возрождение”
- Catalan: “Illa de Vozrojdénia”
- Cebuano: “Vozrojdeniya Orol”
- Chinese: “沃兹罗日杰尼耶岛”
- Chinese: “沃茲羅日傑尼耶島”
- Chinese: “波兹鲁兹岛”
- Chuvash: “Чĕрĕлӳ утравĕ”
- Czech: “Ostrov Vozrožděnija”
- Czech: “Vozrožděnija”
- Dutch: “Ostrov Vozrozjdenija”
- Dutch: “Vozrozjdenija”
- Estonian: “Vozroždenije poolsaar”
- Estonian: “Vozroždenije saar”
- Finnish: “Ostrov Vozroždenija”
- Finnish: “Ostrov Vozrozhdenija”
- French: “Île de la Renaissance”
- French: “Île de Vozrojdénia”
- French: “île de Vozrozhdeniya”
- German: “Insel der Wiedergeburt”
- German: “Vozrozhdeniye”
- German: “Wosroschdenija-Insel”
- German: “Wosroschdenije-Insel”
- German: “Wosroschdenji-Insel”
- German: “Wosroshdenija”
- Hungarian: “Aralszk–7”
- Hungarian: “Újjáéledés-sziget”
- Indonesian: “Vozrozhdeniya”
- Italian: “Isola della Rinascita”
- Italian: “Isola di Nicola I”
- Italian: “isola di Vozroždenie”
- Italian: “Isola di Vozroždenie”
- Japanese: “ヴォズロジェーニエ島”
- Japanese: “ヴォズロジデニヤ島”
- Japanese: “ボズロジェーニエ島”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Vozrojdenie”
- Kazakh: “Vozrojdenïye aralı”
- Kazakh: “Возрождение аралы”
- Kazakh: “ۆوزروجدەنىييە ارالى”
- Korean: “보즈로즈데니야섬”
- Latvian: “Vozroždeņijes sala”
- Lithuanian: “Atgimimo sala”
- Macedonian: “Возрождение”
- Macedonian: “Возрожденија”
- Macedonian: “Преродба”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kantubek”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vozrozjdenijaøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ostov Vozrozjdenija”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tiklanisj orollari”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vozrozjdenija”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Остров Возрождения”
- Norwegian: “Vozrozjdenijaøya”
- Persian: “جزیره وزرژدنیه”
- Polish: “Półwysep Odrodzenia”
- Polish: “Wozrożdienija”
- Polish: “Wyspa Odrodzenia”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Vozrojdenia”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Vozrozhdeniya”
- Romanian: “Insula renaşterii”
- Romanian: “Insula Renașterii”
- Russian: “Возрождения Остров”
- Russian: “Николай”
- Russian: “Остров Возрождения”
- Russian: “Остров Николая I”
- Russian: “Остров Николая”
- Russian: “Полуостров Возрождения”
- Spanish: “Isla Renacimiento”
- Spanish: “Isla Vozrozhdeniya”
- Spanish: “Vozrozhdeniya”
- Thai: “เกาะโวซรอซเดนิยา”
- Ukrainian: “Возрождєнія”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Відродження”
- Uzbek: “Tiklanish orollari”
- Uzbek: “Vozrojdeniye”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Vozrozhdeniya”
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