Antarctica

Takahe, Mount

Mount Takahe is a 3,460-metre-high snow-covered shield volcano in Marie Byrd Land, , 200 kilometres from the . It is a c. 30-kilometre-wide mountain with parasitic vents and a caldera up to 8 kilometres wide.
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  • Type: Volcano with an elevation of 3,460 metres
  • Description: shield volcano in Antarctica
  • Also known as: “Mount Takahe”

Takahe, Mount

Latitude
-76.28307° or 76° 16′ 59″ south
Longitude
-112.08382° or 112° 5′ 2″ west
Elevation
3,460 metres (11,352 feet)
Open location code
25M9PW88+QF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6054458130
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Geo­Names ID
6626426
Wiki­data ID
Q358755
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Satellite Map

Discover Takahe, Mount from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Takahe, Mount” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جبل تكاهي”
  • Balinese: “Gunung Takahé”
  • Bengali: “মাউন্ট তাকাহে”
  • Cebuano: “Takahe”
  • Chinese: “塔卡黑火山”
  • Dagbani: “Mount Takahe”
  • Dutch: “Mount Takahe”
  • French: “mont Takahe”
  • French: “Mont Takahé”
  • German: “Mount Takahe”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Takahe”
  • Irish: “Sliabh Takahe”
  • Japanese: “タカヘ山”
  • Ladin: “Mount Takahe”
  • Macedonian: “Такахе (планина)”
  • Macedonian: “Такахе”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Takahe”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Takahe”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Takahe”
  • Russian: “Вулкан Такахе”
  • Russian: “Такахе”
  • Spanish: “Monte Takahe”
  • Swedish: “Mount Takahe”
  • Swedish: “Takahe”
  • Turkish: “Takahe Dağı”
  • Ukrainian: “Такахе”

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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 “Takahe, Mount”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.