Ball’s Pyramid
Ball's Pyramid is an uninhabited islet in the Pacific Ocean located 20 kilometres southeast of Lord Howe Island, between Australia and New Zealand. The steep rocky basalt outcrop is the eroded plug of a shield volcano and caldera that formed 6.4 million years ago.
- Type: Rock
- Description: an island and an erosional remnant of a shield volcano southeast of Lord Howe Island in the Pacific
- Also known as: “Ball’s Pyramide”, “Bola Piramid”, “Piramide de Ball”, “ბოლს პირამიდა”, and “波爾斯金字塔”
Ball’s Pyramid
- Categories: island, shield volcano, and landform
- Location: New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-31.75368° or 31° 45′ 13″ south
Longitude
159.25119° or 159° 15′ 4″ east
Elevation
572 metres (1,877 feet)
Open location code
4RWX67W2+GF
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Ball’s Pyramid” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هرم بولز”
- Armenian: “Բոլս Պիրամիդ”
- Asturian: “Pirámide de Ball”
- Azerbaijani: “Bols-Pramid adası”
- Basque: “Ballen piramidea”
- Belarusian: “Болс-Пірамід”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Болс-Пірамід”
- Bulgarian: “Пирамида на Бол”
- Catalan: “Piràmide de Ball”
- Cebuano: “Ball’s Pyramid”
- Chinese: “柏尔的金字塔”
- Chinese: “柏爾的金字塔”
- Croatian: “Ballova piramida”
- Czech: “Ballova pyramida”
- Danish: “Ball’s Pyramid”
- Dutch: “Ball’s Pyramid”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هرم بولز”
- Esperanto: “Piramido de Ball”
- Finnish: “Ball’s Pyramid”
- French: “pyramide de Ball”
- French: “Pyramide de Ball”
- Georgian: “ბოლს-პირამიდა”
- German: “Ball’s Pyramid”
- Greek: “Πυραμίδα του Μπολ”
- Hausa: “Pyramid na Ball”
- Hebrew: “פירמידת בול”
- Indonesian: “Piramida Ball”
- Italian: “Piramide di Ball”
- Japanese: “ボールズ・ピラミッド”
- Kölsch: “Ball’s Püramid”
- Korean: “볼스피라미드”
- Literary Chinese: “柏爾金字塔”
- Lithuanian: “Beilo piramidė”
- Malay: “Piramid Ball”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ball’s Pyramid”
- Norwegian: “Ball’s Pyramid”
- Persian: “هرم بال”
- Polish: “Ball’s Pyramid”
- Portuguese: “Pirâmide de Ball”
- Romanian: “Piramida lui Ball”
- Russian: “Болс-Пирамид”
- Serbian: “Болова пирамида”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ballova piramida”
- Spanish: “Pirámide de Ball”
- Swedish: “Ball’s Pyramid”
- Thai: “เกาะบอลส์พีระมิด”
- Turkish: “Ball’s Pyramid”
- Ukrainian: “Болс-Пірамід”
- Vietnamese: “Ball’s Pyramid”
- Western Armenian: “Պոլին Բուրգը”
- Western Armenian: “Պոլիս բուրգը”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: King Point and Red Point.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: North Islet and Observatory Rock.
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