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Ball's Pyramid

an island and an erosional remnant of a shield volcano southeast of Lord Howe Island in the Pacific
Landform island Q152872
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Summary

Ball's Pyramid is an island[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of island entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,161 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Henry Lidgbird Ball[3]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: New South Wales[4]
  • Country: Australia[5]
  • Located in or next to body of water: Tasman Sea[6]
  • Instance of: shield volcano[7]
  • Named after: Henry Lidgbird Ball[8]
  • Part of: Lord Howe Island Group[9]
  • Commons category: Ball's Pyramid[10]
  • Time of discovery or invention: 1788[11]
  • Population: 0[12]
  • Native label: Ball's Pyramid[13]
  • Length: 1.1 km[14]
  • Elevation above sea level: 572 m[15]
  • Area: 0.2 km²[16]

Why It Matters

Ball's Pyramid has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 28 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

Related Entities

Australia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . peakbagger.com. peakbagger.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/46551|batch #46551]]: redundant value; it should not have a time zone."
  2. 23w ago · Jarkn · 2026-05-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described at url → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Described at url: https://www.placemania.sk/svetova-zaujimavost/ballova-pyramida/, Removing PlaceMania.sk P973 link added by me after COI/spam concern; see User talk:Ja"
  3. 24w ago · Jarkn · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described at url → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Described at url: https://www.placemania.sk/svetova-zaujimavost/ballova-pyramida/, Add Slovak descriptive resource (P973)"
  4. 25w ago · Ikan · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Named after → —
    Elevation above sea level → {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+572'}
    Area → {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+0.2'}
    Located in or next to body of water → Tasman Sea
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Wolfram language entity code: Entity["Mountain", "BallsPyramid"], [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/257096|batch #257096]]"
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