Adelaide Island
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In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, Adelaide Island is referenced by 325 other articles, and connects out to Getz Ice Shelf, Antarctica and Rothera Research Station.
The entry is geolocated on the map.
It is catalogued under topics including Adelaide Island, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen and Argentine Antarctica.
Its subject is documented across 33 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Location
- northeast Bellingshausen Sea , Southern Ocean
- Area
- 4,663 km (1,800 sq mi)
- Length
- 139 km (86.4 mi)
- Width
- 37 km (23 mi)
- Highest elevation
- 2,315 m (7595 ft)
- Highest point
- Mount Gaudry
- Population
- around 100
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Named after
- Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen
- Continent
- Antarctica
- Population
- 22
- Area
- 4463
- Elevation
- 2315
- Body of water
- Southern Ocean
- Highest point
- Mount Gaudry
- Image
- Rothera Summer.jpg
- Width
- 33
- Length
- 135
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- Commons category
- Adelaide Island
- topic's main category
- Category:Adelaide Island
- native label
- Adelaide Island
- discoverer or inventor
- John Biscoe
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Adelaide Island is a large, mainly ice-covered island, 139 kilometres (75 nmi) long and 37 kilometres (20 nmi) wide, lying at the north side of Marguerite Bay off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The Ginger Islands lie off the southern end. Mount Bodys is the easternmost mountain on Adelaide Island, rising to over 1,220 m. The island lies within the Argentine, British and Chilean Antarctic claims.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Adelaide Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.