Red Island
Red Island is an island in Heard Island and McDonald Islands. Red Island is situated nearby to the locality Laurens Peninsula, as well as near Cape Laurens.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Anzac Peak and Macey Cone.
Anzac Peak
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Anzac Peak is a 715-metre-high volcano on the Laurens Peninsula of Heard Island in the Southern Ocean. It lies to the northwest of Mawson Peak. Despite its low elevation of just over 700 metres high, the peak and several neighbouring peaks have permanent snow and ice, like the Jacka Glacier with several icefalls.
Macey Cone
Peak
Macey Cone is a small hill, 125 metres high, which marks the remnants of an extinct volcanic cone surmounting the lava cliffs at the northwest end of Laurens Peninsula, about 0.6 nautical miles northeast of Cape Laurens at the northwest end of Heard Island.
Mount Dixon
Volcano
Mount Dixon is a snow-covered stratovolcano, 705 metres high, standing 0.7 nautical miles west of Anzac Peak on the Laurens Peninsula, Heard Island. The feature appears to have been roughly charted on an 1860 sketch map by Captain H.C.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Laurens Peninsula and Cape Laurens.
Laurens Peninsula
Locality
Laurens Peninsula is a rugged peninsula surmounted by several ice-covered peaks that forms the northwestern part of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean.
Cape Laurens
Locality
Cape Laurens is a cape which marks the northwestern extremity of Laurens Peninsula and Heard Island. The name was probably applied by Captain Franklin F.
Rogers Head
Locality
Rogers Head is a conspicuous headland marking the north extremity of the peninsula between Atlas Cove and Corinthian Bay on the north coast of Heard Island. Rogers Head is situated 8 km southeast of Red Island.
Red Island
- Type: Island
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-52.96681° or 52° 58′ 1″ southLongitude
73.30496° or 73° 18′ 18″ eastElevation
58 metres (190 feet)Open location code
3JVM28M3+7XOpenStreetMap ID
way 281574838OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
1547289Wikidata ID
Q25267332
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Red Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Red Island (pulo sa Heard Island and McDonald Islands)”
- Cebuano: “Red Island”
- German: “Red Island”
- Swedish: “Red Island”
- Turkish: “Red Adası (V)”
- Turkish: “Red Island”
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