Fitzgerald Hill
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.- Type: Peak with an elevation of 230 metres
- Description: hill in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Johnson Hill”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Inclusion Hill and Harrison Bluff.
Inclusion Hill
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.
Harrison Bluff
Cliff
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.
McDonald Beach
Beach
McDonald Beach is an extensive beach lying west of Inclusion Hill and 6 nautical miles southwest of Cape Bird on Ross Island, Antarctica. It was named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition, 1958–59, after Captain Edwin A.
Fitzgerald Hill
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-77.25541° or 77° 15′ 20″ southLongitude
166.40783° or 166° 24′ 28″ eastElevation
230 metres (755 feet)Named after
E B FitzgeraldOpen location code
2VJ8PCV5+R4OpenStreetMap ID
node 11109072011OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
6633148Wikidata ID
Q5455601
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Fitzgerald Hill” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Fitzgerald Hill”
- Chinese: “菲茨傑拉德山”
- Dutch: “Fitzgerald Hill”
- German: “Fitzgerald Hill”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fitzgerald Hill”
- Swedish: “Fitzgerald Hill”
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