Southwest
Arizona
Coconino County

Huxley Terrace

Huxley Terrace is a narrow, linear mesa-like platform extending northeast from in western on the South Rim. Three landforms surround Mount Huethawali; the Darwin Plateau extends southwest; two terraces are at the north of Huethawali, Spencer Terrace extends north-northwest, and Huxley Terrace extends northeast.
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  • Type: Heath
  • Description: plateau in western Grand Canyon, Arizona
  • Also known as: “Huxley Plateau”, “Observation”, and “Observation Plateau”
  • Address: AZ

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Huethawali and Wallace Butte.

Peak
is a 6,281-foot-elevation summit located in the , in of northern , . It is situated 3.5 miles due east of Explorers Monument, 1.5 mile west of Grand Scenic Divide, and immediately southwest of Huxley Terrace.

Peak
is a 5,209-foot -elevation summit located in western , in of northern , . It is located on the South Rim, about 1.0 mile northwest of the Grand Scenic Divide across Bass Canyon.

Peak
is a prominence that is located on a spur in the Western , in , . The summit of this prominence has an elevation of 6,729 ft and lies about 1 mi southeast of the Grand Scenic Divide, and 1 mi west of Havasupai Point. is situated 1½ miles south of Huxley Terrace.

Huxley Terrace

Latitude
36.21248° or 36° 12′ 45″ north
Longitude
-112.37268° or 112° 22′ 22″ west
Elevation
5,594 feet (1,705 metres)
Open location code
85896J6G+XW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 369093559
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­heath
Geo­Names ID
5299149
Wiki­data ID
Q49593315
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In Other Languages

“Huxley Terrace” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Huxley Terrace”

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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 “Huxley Terrace”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.