Round Hill
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fairchild Beach and Skua Beach.
Fairchild Beach
Beach
Fairchild Beach is a sandy beach, 0.32 nautical miles wide and 1 nautical mile long, which extends north from the base of Round Hill to the south side of the terminus of Compton Glacier, on the east side of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean.
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 The name Launches Beach appears to have had some usage by American sealers as shown by an unpublished sealer's map of "Hurds Island" of the 1860–70 period.
Scarlet Hill
Peak
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cape Bidlingmaier.
Cape Bidlingmaier
Locality
Cape Bidlingmaier is a rocky cape at the east side of the entrance to Mechanics Bay, on the north side of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean. The feature appears to have been known to American sealers as Morgan's Point, as shown by Captain H.C. Cape Bidlingmaier is situated 10 km northwest of Round Hill.
Round Hill
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 256 metres
- Description: hill in Heard Island
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-53.07016° or 53° 4′ 13″ southLongitude
73.64605° or 73° 38′ 46″ eastElevation
256 metres (840 feet)Open location code
3JRMWJHW+WCOpenStreetMap ID
node 2854195654OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Round Hill” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Round Hill”
- Chinese: “朗德山”
- Dutch: “Round Hill”
- German: “Round Hill”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Round Hill på Heardøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Round Hill”
- Swedish: “Round Hill, Heard Island”
- Swedish: “Round Hill”
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