Mount Dixon
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Anzac Peak and Jacka Glacier.
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.
Jacka Glacier
Glacier
Following is a list of glaciers of Heard Island and McDonald Islands in Antarctica. This list may not reflect recently named glaciers in Heard Island and McDonald Islands.
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.
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 east of Mount Dixon.
Mount Dixon
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 460 metres
- Description: mountain on Heard Island
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-52.99699° or 52° 59′ 49″ southLongitude
73.2869° or 73° 17′ 13″ eastElevation
460 metres (1,509 feet)Open location code
3JVM273P+6QOpenStreetMap ID
node 1261020394OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Mount Dixon” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mount Dixon (tumoy sa bukid)”
- Cebuano: “Mount Dixon”
- Chinese: “迪克森山”
- Dutch: “Mount Dixon”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت ديكسون (اوستراليا)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت ديكسون”
- French: “Mount Dixon”
- German: “Mount Dixon”
- Ladin: “Mount Dixon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Dixon på Heardøya”
- Polish: “Mount Dixon”
- Romanian: “Mount Dixon”
- Slovenian: “Mount Dixon”
- Spanish: “Mount Dixon”
- Swedish: “Mount Dixon (bergstopp)”
- Swedish: “Mount Dixon”
- Turkish: “Mount Dixon”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mount Dixon”. Photo: Tristannew, CC BY-SA 4.0.