Cave Bay
Cave Bay is a 0.3-nautical-mile-wide cove indenting the west side of Heard Island, an uninhabited Australian overseas territory in the Indian Ocean, between West Bay and South West Bay.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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.
Mount Drygalski
Peak
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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.
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.
Cape Gazert
Locality
Cape Gazert is a cape at the western end of the rocky promontory which forms the south side of South West Bay, on the west side of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean.
Cave Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay
- Categories: cove and body of water
- Location: Heard Island and McDonald Islands
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Latitude
-53.0367° or 53° 2′ 12″ southLongitude
73.36834° or 73° 22′ 6″ eastElevation
94 metres (308 feet)Open location code
3JRMX979+88OpenStreetMap ID
node 2855510567OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Cave Bay” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “凱夫灣”
- German: “Cave Bay”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cave Bay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cave Bay”
- Norwegian: “Cave Bay”
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