King Island
King Island is an island in the Bass Strait, belonging to the Australian state of Tasmania. It is the largest of four islands known as the New Year Group and the second-largest island in Bass Strait.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
King Island
- Type: island with 1,610 residents
- Description: island between mainland Australia and Tasmania
- Location: Tasmania, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-39.8722° or 39° 52' 20" southLongitude
143.9915° or 143° 59' 30" eastPopulation
1,610Elevation
61 metres (200 feet)Open Location Code
4RG54XHR+4JGeoNames ID
7839675Wikidata ID
Q794502King Island Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: جزيرة كينج ايسلند
- Arabic: كينغ آيلاند
- Armenian: Քինգ կղզի
- Belarusian: Востраў Кінг
- Belarusian: Кінг
- Bulgarian: Кинг (остров, Тасмания)
- Bulgarian: Кинг
- Catalan: illa de King
- Cebuano: King Island
- Chinese: 京島
- Chinese: 金岛
- Chinese: 金島
- Czech: Kingův ostrov
- Danish: King Island
- Danish: King øen
- Dutch: Kingeiland
- Egyptian Arabic: جزيره كينج ايسلند
- Esperanto: Reĝinsulo
- Finnish: King Island
- French: Ile King
- French: King Island
- French: Île King
- French: Île King Island
- French: île King
- Galician: Illa King, Australia
- Galician: Illa King
- Georgian: კინგი
- German: King Island
- Hebrew: קינג
- Hungarian: King-sziget
- Indonesian: Pulau King (Tasmania)
- Irish: Oileán King
- Italian: King
- Italian: King Island
- Japanese: キング島
- Latvian: Kinga sala
- Lithuanian: Kingo sala
- Malayalam: കിങ്ങ് ദ്വീപുകൾ
- Norwegian Bokmål: King Island
- Persian: جزیرهٔ کینگ
- Persian: جزیره کینگ
- Persian: کینگ آیلند
- Polish: King
- Portuguese: Ilha King
- Russian: Кинг
- Russian: остров Кинг
- Slovenian: King Island
- Spanish: Isla King
- Spanish: King Island
- Swedish: King Island
- Turkish: King Adası (IV)
- Turkish: King Island
- Turkish: Kral Adası
- Ukrainian: Кінг
- Vietnamese: Đảo King
- Wu Chinese: 国王岛
- Yue Chinese: 京島
- Pulau King
Other Places Named King Island
Localities in the Area
- PegarahHamlet
- ParennaNeighbourhood
- LooranaHamlet, 10 km west
- Huxley Hill Wind FarmLocality, 12 km southwest
- Sea ElephantHamlet, 12 km northeast
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page King Island. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.