Scarlet Hill
Scarlet Hill is an ice-free, rounded hill, 410 m, overlooking Skua Beach on the east side of Heard Island. This feature appears to have been roughly charted on an 1874 chart by a British expedition under Nares in the Challenger.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Skua Beach and Round Hill.
Skua Beach
Beach
Skua Beach is a sandy beach lying at the base of Scarlet Hill on the east side of Heard Island. The name Launches Beach appears to have had some usage by American sealers as shown by an unpublished sealer's map of "Hurds Island" of the 1860–70 period.
Round Hill
Peak
Round Hill is an ice-free, rounded hill rising southward of Fairchild Beach and between Compton Glacier and Brown Glacier, on the northeast side of Heard Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cape Lockyer.
Cape Lockyer
Locality
Cape Lockyer is a steep rock headland 1.5 nautical miles northeast of Lambeth Bluff on the southeast side of Heard Island. It was surveyed in 1948 by Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions and named by them for Lieutenant H.C.J. Cape Lockyer is situated 8 km south of Scarlet Hill.
Scarlet Hill
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 344 metres
- Description: hill in Australia
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Heard Island and McDonald Islands
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Latitude
-53.09616° or 53° 5′ 46″ southLongitude
73.66618° or 73° 39′ 58″ eastElevation
344 metres (1,129 feet)Open location code
3JRMWM38+GFOpenStreetMap ID
node 2854195655OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Scarlet Hill” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Scarlet Hill”
- Chinese: “斯卡利特山”
- Dutch: “Scarlet Hill”
- German: “Scarlet Hill”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Scarlet Hill”
- Swedish: “Scarlet Hill”
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