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Lord Howe High Resolution Grids<br />
A profile (south to north) passing through Ball’s Pyramid and Mount Gower was extracted from this<br />
grid using the Fledermaus profile tool as shown in Figure 27. It clearly reveals the wave-cut platform<br />
of the volcano complex and how little land remains of a once much larger island.<br />
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30.65 o S<br />
160.35 o E<br />
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Figure 27: A profile from south to north across the plateaus of Ball’s Pyramid and Lord Howe<br />
Island (top) and the 9 km profile path (bottom).<br />
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