Mawson Peak
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 of 2,745 metres, it is the third highest peak in any state, territory or claimed territory of Australia…| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 2,745 metres
- Description: volcano on Heard Island
- Also known as: “Big Ben”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fremantle Peak and Campbell Peak.
Fremantle Peak
Peak
Fremantle Peak is a peak, 2,375 metres high, standing 0.4 nautical miles northeast of the Dome, near the summit of Heard Island. It was surveyed in 1948 by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions, and named by them after the port of Fremantle, the final point of embarkation for the expedition.
Campbell Peak
Peak
Campbell Peak is a peak, 2,415 metres high, standing 1.2 nautical miles northeast of Mawson Peak, the summit of Heard Island. It was surveyed in 1948 by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions, who named it for Group-Captain Stuart Campbell, Royal Australian Air Force.
Heard Island
Island
Photo: Tristannew, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands is an Australian external territory comprising a volcanic group of mostly barren Antarctic islands, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cape Arkona and Cape Labuan.
Cape Arkona
Locality
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Cape Arkona is a rocky headland between the mouths of Lied Glacier and Gotley Glacier on the southwest side of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean. Cape Arkona is situated 8 km southwest of Mawson Peak.
Cape Labuan
Locality
Cape Labuan is a rocky point midway between Cape Arkona and Lavett Bluff, forming the southwest extremity of Heard Island. It was charted in 1948 by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions and named after HMAS Labuan, a relief ship for the expedition. 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″ southLongitude
73.51667° or 73° 31′ eastElevation
2,745 metres (9,006 feet)Named after
Douglas MawsonOpen location code
3JRMVGW8+8MOpenStreetMap ID
node 2774722248OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcanoGeoNames ID
1547302Wikidata ID
Q2114101
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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”
- 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”
- 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”
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