Mawson Peak is an active volcanic summit of the Big Ben massif on Heard Island, an external Australian territory in the Indian Ocean. With an elevation...
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Islands contain Australia's only two active volcanoes. The summit of one, Mawson Peak, is higher than any mountain in all other Australian states, territories...
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Big Ben (Heard Island) (redirect from Big Ben Peak)
stratovolcano with a diameter of about 25 km (16 mi). Its highest point is Mawson Peak, which is 2,745 m (9,006 ft) above sea level. Much of it is covered by...
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Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was a British-born Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald...
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Topographic prominence (redirect from Parent peak)
summit. The key col ("saddle") around the peak is a unique point on this contour line and the parent peak is some higher mountain, selected according...
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Peak is a 715-metre-high (2,346 ft) volcano on the Laurens Peninsula of Heard Island in the Southern Ocean. It lies to the northwest of Mawson Peak....
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Mawson Station, commonly called Mawson, is one of three permanent bases and research outposts in Antarctica managed by the Australian Antarctic Division...
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Hawaiian Effusive < 100 m constant negligible none Kīlauea (current), Mawson Peak (current), Dallol (2011), Holuhraun (2014-2015), Fagradalsfjall (2021-2023)...
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ice with ice cliffs along most of the coastline. It is dominated by Mawson Peak, a 2,745-metre (9,006 ft) high complex volcano which forms part of the...
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Topographic isolation (redirect from Ultra isolated peak)
dominance in which the peak is the highest point. It can be calculated for small hills and islands as well as for major mountain peaks and can even be calculated...
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Georgia Island, Atlantic Ocean Jacka Glacier – Anzac Peak, Heard Island, Indian Ocean Mawson Peak – Heard Island, Indian Ocean Posadowsky Glacier – Bouvet...
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is the highest mountain on the Australian mainland. Even taller are Mawson Peak, at 2,745 m (9,006 ft), on the remote Australian external territory of...
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E) Continental Australia: Steep Point, Western Australia (113°09' E) Mawson Peak, Heard Island (2,744 metres (9,003 ft)) Continental Australia: Mount...
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islands in the world ordered by their highest point; it lists islands with peaks by elevation. At the end of this article continental landmasses are also...
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List of mountains by elevation (redirect from List of mountain peaks by elevation)
Eight-thousanders. (Some people have claimed there are six more 8,000m peaks in Nepal, making for a total of 20.) All are in the two highest mountain...
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(150 mi) away. Higher peaks exist within territory administered or claimed by Australia: outside the continent are Mawson Peak (2,745 m or 9,006 ft) on...
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metres (7,920 ft) high, standing 1.2 nautical miles (2.2 km) northeast of Mawson Peak, the summit of Heard Island. It was surveyed in 1948 by the Australian...
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Sandwich Islands Mount Belinda Montagu Island, South Sandwich Islands Mawson Peak Heard Island Past lava lake activity Kīlauea Puʻu ʻŌʻō crater (1983-2018...
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600 ft) high, 1.7 nautical miles (3.1 km) southeast of Mawson Peak on Heard Island. The peak was mapped by Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions...
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both the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere. The summit of Mawson Peak (2,745 m) on Heard Island is the highest point on a dependent territory...
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warming. The Mawson Glacier rises on the Antarctic Plateau. Features of the region of its head include Battlements Nunatak, Reckling Peak, Jarina Nunatak...
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Seven Summits (category Peak bagging)
Guinea changed continents in 1969. In terms of Australia as a country, Mawson Peak (2,745 m (9,006 ft)) is higher than Kosciuszko. However, it is not located...
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Canada Mount Longonot 2,776 9,108 Kenya Cerro Machín 2,749 9,019 Colombia Mawson Peak 2,745 9,006 Heard Island – highest mountain in Australia Baekdu Mountain...
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Mauna Kea http://heardisland.org/HD_documents/HE_Library/Mountaineering/Mawson_Peak_19820001.pdf [bare URL PDF] https://www.timbowden.com...
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the image, with Lied Glacier just above and Gotley Glacier just below. Big Ben Volcano and Mawson Peak are seen at the lower right side of the image....
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Coordinates Anzac Peak 715 2,346 52°59′32″S 73°17′58″E / 52.99222°S 73.29944°E / -52.99222; 73.29944 (Anzac Peak) — Big Ben (Mawson Peak) 2,745 9,006 53°6′0″S...
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Mount Magog Mount Trio Mount Hassell Talyuberlup Peak Peak Charles National Park Peak Charles Peak Eleanora West Mount Barren East Mount Barren Mount...
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1986 m; Bimberi Peak, ACT, 1912 m; Mount Ossa, TAS, 1617 m (while the highest mountain on Australian Territory is actually Mawson Peak, Heard Island, at...
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Framnes Mountains in Antarctica, near Mawson Station. It was named, around 1960, after the previously fictitious peak featured in the comic novel The Ascent...
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Australian Alps (redirect from Mawsons Hut (Australia))
noteworthy huts include Moscow Villa Hut, Valentine Hut, Seaman's Hut, and Mawsons Hut. In recent years many huts have been lost through lack of maintenance...
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