Melbourne, Mount

Mount Melbourne is a 2,733-metre-high ice-covered stratovolcano in , , between and . It is an elongated mountain with a summit caldera filled with ice with numerous parasitic vents; a volcanic field surrounds the edifice.
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  • Type: Volcano with an elevation of 2,590 metres
  • Description: Volcano in Antarctica
  • Also known as: “Mount Melbourne”

Melbourne, Mount

Latitude
-74.35° or 74° 21′ south
Longitude
164.7° or 164° 42′ east
Elevation
2,590 metres (8,497 feet)
Named after
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Open location code
2VQ6MM2X+2X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 864674472
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Geo­Names ID
6637948
Wiki­data ID
Q739945
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In Other Languages

From Azerbaijani to Vietnamese—“Melbourne, Mount” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Melburn”
  • Cebuano: “Melbourne (bukid)”
  • Cebuano: “Melbourne”
  • Central Kurdish: “چیای مێلبۆرن”
  • Chinese: “墨爾本山”
  • Czech: “Mount Melbourne”
  • Dutch: “Mount Melbourne”
  • French: “mont Melbourne”
  • French: “Mont Melbourne”
  • German: “Mount Melbourne”
  • Hebrew: “הר מלבורן”
  • Irish: “Sliabh Melbourne”
  • Italian: “monte Melbourne”
  • Italian: “Monte Melbourne”
  • Japanese: “メルボルン山”
  • Korean: “멜버른산”
  • Ladin: “Mount Melbourne”
  • Latvian: “Melburna kalns”
  • Macedonian: “Мелбурн (планина)”
  • Macedonian: “Мелбурн”
  • Marathi: “माउंट मेलबर्न”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Melbourne”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Melbourne”
  • Norwegian: “Mount Melbourne”
  • Polish: “Mount Melbourne”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Melbourne”
  • Russian: “Мельбурн”
  • Spanish: “Monte Melbourne”
  • Swedish: “Melbourne (berg)”
  • Swedish: “Mount Melbourne”
  • Ukrainian: “Мельбурн”
  • Venetian: “Monte Melbourne”
  • Vietnamese: “Núi Melbourne”

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