Bird, Mount
Mount Bird is a 1,765 metres high shield volcano standing about 7 nautical miles south of Cape Bird, the northern extremity of Ross Island. It was mapped by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Robert Falcon Scott, and apparently named by them after Cape Bird.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,719 metres
- Description: volcano on Ross Island, Antarctica
- Also known as: “Mount Bird”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nash Peak and Wong Peak.
Nash Peak
Peak
Mount Bird is a 1,765 metres high shield volcano standing about 7 nautical miles south of Cape Bird, the northern extremity of Ross Island. It was mapped by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Robert Falcon Scott, and apparently named by them after Cape Bird.
Wong Peak
Peak
Mount Bird is a 1,765 metres high shield volcano standing about 7 nautical miles south of Cape Bird, the northern extremity of Ross Island. It was mapped by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Robert Falcon Scott, and apparently named by them after Cape Bird.
Kaka Nunatak
Peak
Mount Bird is a 1,765 metres high shield volcano standing about 7 nautical miles south of Cape Bird, the northern extremity of Ross Island. It was mapped by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Robert Falcon Scott, and apparently named by them after Cape Bird.
Bird, Mount
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-77.27146° or 77° 16′ 17″ southLongitude
166.74591° or 166° 44′ 45″ eastElevation
1,719 metres (5,640 feet)Named after
Cape BirdOpen location code
2VJ8PPHW+C9OpenStreetMap ID
node 7949876098OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
6625582Wikidata ID
Q3321699
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Bird, Mount” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Bird, Mount”
- Chinese: “伯德山”
- Dutch: “Mount Bird”
- French: “mont Bird”
- French: “Mont Bird”
- German: “Mount Bird”
- Hebrew: “הר בירד”
- Hungarian: “Mount Bird”
- Japanese: “バード山”
- Ladin: “Mount Bird”
- Latvian: “Bērda kalns”
- Low German: “Mount Bird (Ross-Eiland)”
- Low German: “Mount Bird”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Bird”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Bird”
- Norwegian: “Mount Bird”
- Spanish: “Monte Bird”
- Swedish: “Bird, Mount”
- Swedish: “Mount Bird”
- Ukrainian: “Бірд”
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