Mosbytoppane
Mosbytoppane, are two crags to the southwest of the caldera of the island of Bouvetøya. The tallest is a snow-covered peak 670 meters above mean sea level and 1.3 kilometers northeast of Norvegiaodden.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 670 metres
- Description: mountain on Bouvet Island
- Also known as: “Mosbys Topp”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lykketoppen and Benn Skerries.
Lykketoppen
Peak
Lykketoppen, occasionally anglicized as Lykke Peak, is a snow-covered, 765-meter tall summit that surmounts the southwest part of Bouvetøya, standing 1 nautical mile east of Norvegia Point.
Benn Skerries
Islet
Benn Skerries are a small group of rocks which extend up to 0.25 nautical miles westward from Norvegia Point on the island of Bouvetøya. They were charted and named in December 1927 by a Norwegian expedition in the Norvegia under Captain Harald Horntvedt.
Larsøya
Islet
Larsøya, sometimes anglicized as Lars Island, is a rocky island, less than 0.2 nautical miles long, which lies just off the southwestern extremity of the island of Bouvetøya in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cape Circoncision and Cape Valdivia.
Cape Circoncision
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Cape Circoncision is a peninsula on the north-western edge of subantarctic Bouvet Island. The small peninsula was sighted by the French naval exploration that was led by Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier on 1 January 1739, the Feast of the Circumcision day—thus the name.
Cape Valdivia
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cape Valdivia is the northernmost point on Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. The subantarctic Bouvet Island is administered by Norway. Cape Valdivia lies in the centre of the island's highest point.
Mosbytoppane
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Bouvet Island
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Latitude
-54.42815° or 54° 25′ 41″ southLongitude
3.30396° or 3° 18′ 14″ eastElevation
670 metres (2,198 feet)Open location code
3FQ5H8C3+PHOpenStreetMap ID
node 3321448731OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Mosbytoppane” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mosby Peak”
- Chinese: “莫斯比峰”
- Dutch: “Mosbytoppane”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل موسبيتوپان”
- German: “Mosby Peak”
- German: “Mosbytoppen”
- Japanese: “モスビー峰”
- Ladin: “Mosbytoppane”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mosbytoppane”
- Norwegian: “Mosbytoppen”
- Spanish: “Pico Mosby”
- Spanish: “Pico Mosbytoppane”
- Swedish: “Mosby Peak”
- Swedish: “Mosbytoppen”
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