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Ball's Pyramid

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Ball's Pyramid is an erosional remnant of a shield volcano and caldera that formed about 6.4 million years ago. [1]

40 relations: Arthur Phillip, Australia, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Geographic, Australian Hydrographic Service, Caldera, Carleton College, Continent, Dick Smith (entrepreneur), Dryococelus australis, Flag of New South Wales, Geologist, Henry Lidgbird Ball, Jack Pettigrew, John Davis (filmmaker), John Stockdale, List of volcanoes in Australia, Lord Howe Island, Lord Howe Island Marine Park, Lord Howe Rise, Lord Howe Seamount Chain, Lot's Wife (crag), Melaleuca howeana, Neville Wran, New South Wales Legislative Assembly, NPR, Oceania, Premier of New South Wales, Rockall, Royal Navy, Scouts Australia, Shield volcano, Stac an Armin, Stac Lee, Stack (geology), Submarine canyon, Sydney, The Sydney Morning Herald, Volcanic plug, Zealandia.

Arthur Phillip

Admiral Arthur Phillip (11 October 1738 – 31 August 1814) was a Royal Navy officer and the first Governor of New South Wales who founded the British penal colony that later became the city of Sydney, Australia.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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Australian Geographic

Australian Geographic is a media business that produces the Australian Geographic magazine, DMag magazine, specialist book titles, travel guides, diaries and calendars and online media.

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Australian Hydrographic Service

The Australian Hydrographic Service (formerly known as the Royal Australian Navy Hydrographic Service) is the Australian Commonwealth Government agency responsible for providing hydrographic services that meet Australia's obligations under the SOLAS convention and the national interest; enabling safe navigation, maritime trade and supporting protection of the marine environment.

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Caldera

A caldera is a large cauldron-like depression that forms following the evacuation of a magma chamber/reservoir.

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Carleton College

Carleton College is a private liberal arts college founded in 1866 located in Northfield, Minnesota, about 40 miles south of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis–Saint Paul.

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Continent

A continent is one of several very large landmasses of the world.

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Dick Smith (entrepreneur)

Richard Harold Smith (born 18 March 1944) is an Australian entrepreneur, businessman, record-breaking aviator, philanthropist, and political activist.

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Dryococelus australis

Dryococelus australis, commonly known as the Lord Howe Island stick insect or tree lobster, is a species of stick insect that lives on the Lord Howe Island Group.

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Flag of New South Wales

The current state flag of New South Wales was officially adopted by the government of New South Wales in 1876.

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Geologist

A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes that shape it.

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Henry Lidgbird Ball

Henry Lidgbird Ball (1756–1818) was a Royal Navy officer, best known for discovering and exploring Lord Howe Island.

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Jack Pettigrew

John Douglas "Jack" Pettigrew (born 2 October 1943 in Wagga Wagga)Who's Who in Australia 2013, Crown Content, 2012.

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John Davis (filmmaker)

John Davis (c. 1944 – 7 November 2015) was an Australian documentary filmmaker, mountaineer, television producer, chemical engineer, and member of the Australian Greens.

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John Stockdale

John Stockdale (25 March 1750Probable - Stockdale (2005) p.117 – 21 June 1814) was an English publisher whose London shop became a salon for the political classes and who had to face two actions for defamation.

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List of volcanoes in Australia

This is a list of active, dormant and extinct volcanoes in Australia and its island territories.

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Lord Howe Island

Lord Howe Island (formerly Lord Howe's Island) is an irregularly crescent-shaped volcanic remnant in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, directly east of mainland Port Macquarie, and about southwest of Norfolk Island.

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Lord Howe Island Marine Park

Lord Howe Island Marine Park is the site of Australia's and the world’s most southern coral reef ecosystem.

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Lord Howe Rise

The Lord Howe Rise is a deep sea plateau which extends from south west of New Caledonia to the Challenger Plateau, west of New Zealand in the south west of the Pacific Ocean.

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Lord Howe Seamount Chain

The Lord Howe Seamount Chain is the seamount chain that includes Lord Howe Island.

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Lot's Wife (crag)

is a volcanic, deserted island located in the Philippine Sea approximately south off the coast of Tokyo, at the southernmost tip of the Izu archipelago, Japan.

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Melaleuca howeana

Melaleuca howeana, commonly known as tea tree, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the Lord Howe Island group, off the east coast of Australia.

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Neville Wran

Neville Kenneth Wran, (11 October 1926 – 20 April 2014) was an Australian politician who was the Premier of New South Wales from 1976 to 1986.

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New South Wales Legislative Assembly

The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Oceania

Oceania is a geographic region comprising Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and Australasia.

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Premier of New South Wales

The Premier of New South Wales is the head of government in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Rockall

Rockall is an uninhabited granite islet within the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the United Kingdom,.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.

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Scouts Australia

Scouts Australia, officially The Scout Association of Australia, is the largest Scouting organisation in Australia and is a registered member organisation of the World Organization of the Scout Movement.

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Shield volcano

A shield volcano is a type of volcano usually composed almost entirely of fluid lava flows.

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Stac an Armin

Stac an Armin (Scottish Gaelic: Stac an Àrmainn), based on the proper Scottish Gaelic spelling (formerly àrmuinn), is a sea stack in the St Kilda archipelago.

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Stac Lee

Stac Lee (Stac Lì) is a sea stack in the St Kilda group off the west coast of Scotland.

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Stack (geology)

A stack or sea stack is a geological landform consisting of a steep and often vertical column or columns of rock in the sea near a coast, formed by wave erosion.

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Submarine canyon

A submarine canyon is a steep-sided valley cut into the seabed of the continental slope, sometimes extending well onto the continental shelf, having nearly vertical walls, and occasionally having canyon wall heights of up to 5 km, from canyon floor to canyon rim, as with the Great Bahama Canyon.

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Sydney

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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Volcanic plug

A volcanic plug, also called a volcanic neck or lava neck, is a volcanic object created when magma hardens within a vent on an active volcano.

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Zealandia

Zealandia, also known as the New Zealand continent or Tasmantis is an almost entirely submerged mass of continental crust that sank after breaking away from Australia 60–85 million years ago, having separated from Antarctica between 85 and 130 million years ago.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball's_Pyramid

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