Mawson Peak
Mawson Peak is an active volcanic summit of the Big Ben volcanic massif on Heard Island, an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean. With an elevation of 2,745 metres, it is higher than any peak on the Australian mainland and, among Australian mountains, is surpassed only by mountains in the Australian Antarctic Territory.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 2,745 metres
- Description: volcano on Heard Island
- Also known as: “Big Ben”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Fremantle Peak and Heard Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cape Arkona and Cape Labuan.
Cape Arkona
Locality
Photo: NASA, Public domain.Cape Labuan
Locality
Cape Labuan is a rocky point midway between… Cape Labuan is situated 10 km south of Mawson Peak.
Mawson Peak
- Categories: mountain, stratovolcano, and landform
- Location: Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-53.10424° or 53° 6′ 15″ south
Longitude
73.51667° or 73° 31′ east
Elevation
2,745 metres (9,006 feet)
Named after
Open location code
3JRMVGW8+8M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Mawson Peak” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قمة ماوسون”
- Arabic: “قمة موسون”
- Azerbaijani: “Mauson”
- Azerbaijani: “Mouson-Pik”
- Basque: “Mawson Peak”
- Bengali: “ম্যাওসন শৃঙ্গ”
- Burmese: “မော်ဆန်တောင်ထိပ်”
- Catalan: “Mawson Peak”
- Cebuano: “Mawson Peak”
- Chinese: “莫森峰”
- Czech: “Mawson Peak”
- Danish: “Mawson Peak”
- Dutch: “Mawson Peak”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ماوسون پياك”
- Esperanto: “Monto Mawson”
- French: “pic Mawson”
- French: “Pic Mawson”
- Galician: “Pico Mawson”
- German: “Mawson Peak”
- Hindi: “मॉसन पीक”
- Indonesian: “Puncak Mawson”
- Italian: “Mawson Peak”
- Japanese: “モーソン・ピーク”
- Kazakh: “Маусон”
- Ladin: “Mawson Peak”
- Latvian: “Mosona smaile”
- Luxembourgish: “Mawson Peak”
- Macedonian: “Мосон”
- Mingrelian: “მოუსონ პიკი”
- Moroccan Arabic: “راس ماوسون”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mawson Peak”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mawson Peak”
- Persian: “قله ماوسون”
- Polish: “Mawson Peak”
- Portuguese: “Pico Mawson”
- Russian: “Моусон-Пик”
- Russian: “Моусон”
- Slovenian: “Mawson Peak”
- Spanish: “Pico Mawson”
- Swahili: “Mawson Peak”
- Swedish: “Mawson Peak”
- Tamil: “மோசன் மலை”
- Ukrainian: “Моусон-Пік”
- Ukrainian: “Пік Моусон”
- Venetian: “Mawson Peak”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Cape Pillar and Cape Bidlingmaier.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Budd Peak and Little Matterhorn.
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