First Crater
Hut Point Peninsula is a long, narrow peninsula from 2 to 3 nautical miles wide and 15 nautical miles long, projecting south-west from the slopes of Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica. McMurdo Station and Scott Base are Antarctic research stations located on the Hut Point Peninsula.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Arrival Heights and Starr Lake.
Arrival Heights
Peak
Photo: Dan smale, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Arrival Heights are clifflike heights which extend in a north-east–south-west direction along the west side of Hut Point Peninsula, just north of Hut Point in Ross Island, Antarctica.
Starr Lake
Lake
Hut Point Peninsula is a long, narrow peninsula from 2 to 3 nautical miles wide and 15 nautical miles long, projecting south-west from the slopes of Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica. McMurdo Station and Scott Base are Antarctic research stations located on the Hut Point Peninsula.
Black Knob
Peak
Hut Point Peninsula is a long, narrow peninsula from 2 to 3 nautical miles wide and 15 nautical miles long, projecting south-west from the slopes of Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica. McMurdo Station and Scott Base are Antarctic research stations located on the Hut Point Peninsula.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fortress Rocks and McMurdo Station.
Fortress Rocks
Locality
Photo: Eli Duke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hut Point Peninsula is a long, narrow peninsula from 2 to 3 nautical miles wide and 15 nautical miles long, projecting south-west from the slopes of Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica. McMurdo Station and Scott Base are Antarctic research stations located on the Hut Point Peninsula.
McMurdo Station
Town
Hut Point Peninsula
Locality
Photo: Mike Martoccia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hut Point Peninsula is a long, narrow peninsula from 2 to 3 nautical miles wide and 15 nautical miles long, projecting south-west from the slopes of Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica. McMurdo Station and Scott Base are Antarctic research stations located on the Hut Point Peninsula.
First Crater
- Type: Volcano
- Description: crater on Ross Island, Antarctica
- Categories: volcanic crater, mountain, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-77.83306° or 77° 49′ 59″ southLongitude
166.65471° or 166° 39′ 17″ eastElevation
1 metre (3 feet)Open location code
2VJ85M83+QVOpenStreetMap ID
node 10572010310OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“First Crater” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “First Crater”
- Esperanto: “Unua Kratero”
- German: “First Crater”
- Ladin: “First Crater”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “First Crater”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “First Crater”
- Swedish: “First Crater”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Arrival Heights Laboratory and Twin Crater.
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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 “First Crater”. Photo: ravas51, CC BY-SA 2.0.