Mount Munro
Mount Munro is, at 715 metres, the highest point on Cape Barren Island in Bass Strait, Tasmania, Australia. It was probably named after James Munro, a former convict who had been a sealer and beachcomber in Bass Strait from the early 1820s and lived for more than twenty years on nearby Preservation Island, where he had several "wives".- Type: Peak with an elevation of 715 metres
- Description: mountain in Tasmania, Australia
- Also known as: “Mount Munroe”
Mount Munro
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Flinders Island, Tasmania, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-40.3705° or 40° 22′ 14″ southLongitude
148.11745° or 148° 7′ 3″ eastElevation
715 metres (2,346 feet)Open location code
4RFCJ4H8+RXOpenStreetMap ID
node 3008760420OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Mount Munro” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mount Munro (bukid sa Awstralya, State of Tasmania)”
- Cebuano: “Mount Munro”
- Dutch: “Mount Munro”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت مونرو”
- French: “Mount Munro”
- German: “Mount Munro”
- Japanese: “ムンロ山”
- Ladin: “Mount Munro”
- Swedish: “Mount Munro (berg i Australien, Tasmanien)”
- Swedish: “Mount Munro”
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