White Island
White Island is an uninhabited active volcanic island off the coast from Whakatane in the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand that you can fly over by plane or helicopter.
- Island
- …lies at an elevation of around 320 metres (1,050 feet)
- Description: island volcano in New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty
- Also known as“Whakaari”“Whakaari / White Island”“Whakaari Island”“Whakari”
Pseudopanax, Public domain.Places of Interest
Highlights include Ngātoro Peak and Mount Gisborne.
Ngātoro Peak
Peak
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Te Hokowhitu and Poroporo.
White Island
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Latitude
-37.519° or 37° 31′ 8″ south
Longitude
177.1816° or 177° 10′ 54″ east
UN/LOCODE
NZ WHT
Open location code
4VJVF5JJ+CJ
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“White Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الجزيرة البيضاء (نيوزيلندا)”
- Arabic: “الجزيرة البيضاء”
- Basque: “Whakaari/White uhartea”
- Catalan: “Whakaari”
- Catalan: “White Island”
- Cebuano: “Whakaari/White Island”
- Cebuano: “White Island”
- Chinese: “懷特島”
- Chinese: “白島 (紐西蘭)”
- Chuvash: “Шурă утрав”
- Czech: “Te Puia o Whakaari”
- Czech: “Whakaari/White Island”
- Czech: “Whakaari”
- Dutch: “White Island”
- Esperanto: “Blanka Insulo”
- Estonian: “Valge saar”
- Estonian: “Whakaari”
- Estonian: “White Island”
- Finnish: “Whakaari”
- French: “Whakaari”
- French: “Whakaari/White Island”
- French: “White Island”
- Galician: “Illa Whakaari / White”
- German: “Whakaari / White Island”
- German: “Whakaari”
- German: “White Island”
- Greek: “Νήσος Χουάιτ (Νέα Ζηλανδία)”
- Greek: “Νήσος Χουάιτ”
- Greek: “Φακαάρι”
- Hebrew: “האי וייט”
- Hebrew: “ואקאארי”
- Icelandic: “Whakaari/White Island”
- Inari Sami: “Whakaari”
- Indonesian: “Whakaari/White Island”
- Italian: “Whakaari/White Island”
- Japanese: “ファカアリ”
- Japanese: “ホワイト島”
- Korean: “와카아리/화이트 섬”
- Korean: “화이트 섬”
- Korean: “화카아리/화이트섬”
- Macedonian: “Бел Остров”
- Macedonian: “Факари”
- Malay: “Whakaari/White Island”
- Maori: “Te Puia o Whakaari”
- Maori: “Whakaari”
- Persian: “جزیره سفید”
- Persian: “جزیره واکاری”
- Persian: “جزیره وایت”
- Polish: “White”
- Polish: “Wyspa Biała”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Branca”
- Portuguese: “Whakaari”
- Portuguese: “Whakaari/Ilha Branca”
- Portuguese: “Whakaari/White Island”
- Portuguese: “White Island”
- Russian: “остров Уайт”
- Russian: “Уайт-Айленд”
- Russian: “Факаари”
- Slovak: “Te Puia o Whakaari”
- Slovak: “White Island”
- Slovenian: “Beli otok”
- Slovenian: “Whakaari”
- Slovenian: “White Island”
- Spanish: “Isla Whakaari ana”
- Spanish: “Isla Whakaari/White”
- Swedish: “Whakaari/White Island”
- Tagalog: “Whakaari/White Island”
- Tamil: “வெள்ளைத் தீவு, நியூசிலாந்து”
- Turkish: “White Adası”
- Welsh: “Ynys Wen, Seland Newydd”
- Wu Chinese: “怀特岛（新西兰）”
- Yue Chinese: “懷特島”
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