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    Mawson Peak is an active volcanic summit of the Big Ben massif on Heard Island, an external Australian territory in the Indian Ocean. With an elevation...
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    They contain Australia's only two active volcanoes. The summit of one, Mawson Peak, is higher than any mountain in all other Australian states or territories...
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    Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was a British-born Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald...
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    stratovolcano with a diameter of about 25 km (16 mi). Its highest point is Mawson Peak, which is 2,745 m (9,006 ft) above sea level. Much of it is covered by...
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    Mawson Station, commonly called Mawson, is one of three permanent bases and research outposts in Antarctica managed by the Australian Antarctic Division...
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    Peak is a 715-metre-high (2,346 ft) volcano on the Laurens Peninsula of Heard Island in the Southern Ocean. It lies to the northwest of Mawson Peak....
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    Hawaiian Effusive < 100 m constant negligible none Kīlauea (current), Mawson Peak (current), Dallol (2011), Holuhraun (2014-2015), Fagradalsfjall (2021-2023)...
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    dominance in which the peak is the highest point. It can be calculated for small hills and islands as well as for major mountain peaks and can even be calculated...
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    summit. The key col ("saddle") around the peak is a unique point on this contour line and the parent peak is some higher mountain, selected according...
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    Georgia Island, Atlantic Ocean Jacka Glacier – Anzac Peak, Heard Island, Indian Ocean Mawson Peak – Heard Island, Indian Ocean Posadowsky Glacier – Bouvet...
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    islands in the world ordered by their highest point; it lists islands with peaks by elevation. At the end of this article continental landmasses are also...
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    ice with ice cliffs along most of the coastline. It is dominated by Mawson Peak, a 2,745-metre (9,006 ft) high complex volcano which forms part of the...
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    is the highest mountain on the Australian mainland. Even taller are Mawson Peak (at 2,745 m (9,006 ft)), on the remote Australian external territory...
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    E) Continental Australia: Steep Point, Western Australia (113°09' E) Mawson Peak, Heard Island (2,744 metres (9,003 ft)) Continental Australia: Mount...
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    (150 mi) away. Higher peaks exist within territory administered or claimed by Australia: outside the continent are Mawson Peak (2,745 m or 9,006 ft) on...
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    Sandwich Islands Mount Belinda Montagu Island, South Sandwich Islands Mawson Peak Heard Island Past lava lake activity Kīlauea Puʻu ʻŌʻō crater (1983-2018...
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    both the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere. The summit of Mawson Peak (2,745 m) on Heard Island is the highest point on a dependent territory...
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  • metres (7,920 ft) high, standing 1.2 nautical miles (2.2 km) northeast of Mawson Peak, the summit of Heard Island. It was surveyed in 1948 by the Australian...
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  • Eight-thousanders. (Some people have claimed there are six more 8,000m peaks in Nepal, making for a total of 20. ) All are in the two highest mountain...
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  • 600 ft) high, 1.7 nautical miles (3.1 km) southeast of Mawson Peak on Heard Island. The peak was mapped by Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions...
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  • Canada Mount Longonot 2,776 9,108 Kenya Cerro Machín 2,749 9,019 Colombia Mawson Peak 2,745 9,006 Heard Island – highest mountain in Australia Baekdu Mountain...
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  • warming. The Mawson Glacier rises on the Antarctic Plateau. Features of the region of its head include Battlements Nunatak, Reckling Peak, Jarina Nunatak...
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    1986 m; Bimberi Peak, ACT, 1912 m; Mount Ossa, TAS, 1617 m (while the highest mountain on Australian Territory is actually Mawson Peak, Heard Island, at...
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  • Seven Summits (category Peak bagging)
    Guinea changed continents in 1969. In terms of Australia as a country, Mawson Peak (2,745 m (9,006 ft)) is higher than Kosciuszko. However, it is not located...
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    the image, with Lied Glacier just above and Gotley Glacier just below. Big Ben Volcano and Mawson Peak are seen at the lower right side of the image....
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  • Coordinates Anzac Peak 715 2,346 52°59′32″S 73°17′58″E / 52.99222°S 73.29944°E / -52.99222; 73.29944 (Anzac Peak) — Big Ben (Mawson Peak) 2,745 9,006 53°6′0″S...
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  • Mauna Kea http://heardisland.org/HD_documents/HE_Library/Mountaineering/Mawson_Peak_19820001.pdf [bare URL PDF] https://www.timbowden.com...
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    Mount Magog Mount Trio Mount Hassell Talyuberlup Peak Peak Charles National Park Peak Charles Peak Eleanora West Mount Barren East Mount Barren Mount...
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    technician at Mawson Station, 1965. Lensink Peak (71°4′S 65°25′E / 71.067°S 65.417°E / -71.067; 65.417) is the easternmost of a group of three peaks about...
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    The Mawson Formation is a geological formation in Antarctica, dating to roughly between 182 and 177 million years ago and covering the Toarcian stages...
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