Mount Drygalski
Mount Drygalski is an ice-free hill, 210 metres high, standing 0.7 nautical miles southeast of Atlas Cove, near the northwest end of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 12 metres
- Description: mountain on Heard Island
- Also known as: “Drygalski-Fels”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Andree and Mount Aubert de la Rue.
Mount Andree
Peak
Mount Andree is an ice-free hill, 140 m, surmounting the small headland between Cave and West Bays on the west side of Heard Island. First charted and named by Edgar Aubert de la Rue, French geologist aboard the whale humper Kildalkey, who with his wife Andree undertook geological investigations along the north and west sides of the island in January 1929.
Mount Aubert de la Rue
Peak
Mount Aubert de la Rue is an ice-free hill, 125 metres high, standing at the south end and surmounting the low Fidelia Isthmus that connects Laurens Peninsula with the main mass of Heard Island.
Schmidt Glacier
Glacier
Schmidt Glacier is a glacier, 0.7 nautical miles long, flowing west from Baudissin Glacier between Mount Drygalski and North West Cornice, on the west side of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Erratic Point and Corinth Head.
Erratic Point
Locality
Erratic Point is a small, moss-covered point at the head of South West Bay, 1.3 nautical miles northeast of Cape Gazert, on the west side of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean.
Corinth Head
Locality
Corinth Head is a rocky headland 0.5 nautical miles southeast of Rogers Head, overlooking the west side of Corinthian Bay, on the north side of Heard Island.
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.
Mount Drygalski
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-53.03857° or 53° 2′ 19″ southLongitude
73.39851° or 73° 23′ 55″ eastElevation
12 metres (39 feet)Open location code
3JRMX96X+HCOpenStreetMap ID
node 2855510577OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Mount Drygalski” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mount Drygalski”
- Chinese: “德里加爾斯基山”
- Dutch: “Mount Drygalski”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت دريجالسكى”
- German: “Mount Drygalski”
- Ladin: “Mount Drygalski”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Drygalski”
- Swedish: “Mount Drygalski”
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