Fairchild 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.- Beach
- …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (20 feet)
- Description: sandy beach
- Also known as“Fairchild’s Beach”“Hanchild Beach”
Places of Interest
Discover Round Hill and Gilchrist Beach.
Round Hill
Peak
Round Hill is an ice-free, rounded hill rising…
Skua Beach
Beach
Skua Beach is a sandy beach lying at the base of Scarlet Hill on the east side of Heard Island.
4 km southeast of Fairchild Beach
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cape Bidlingmaier.
Fairchild Beach
- Category: landform
- Location: Heard Island and McDonald Islands
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Latitude
-53.05393° or 53° 3′ 14″ south
Longitude
73.64886° or 73° 38′ 56″ east
Open location code
3JRMWJWX+CG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural = beach
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Fairchild Beach” goes by many names.
Fairchild BeachCebuano
شط فيرتشايلدEgyptian Arabic
Fairchild BeachNorwegian Nynorsk
Fairchild BeachSwedish
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