Pawson Peak
Pawson Peak is a solitary peak of irregular conical shape, rising to 250 m west-northwest of Sphinx Hill, Admiralty Bay, King George Island. Named in 1977 by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Kenneth Pawson, Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey meteorological observer, Port Lockroy, 1947–48; general assistant, Admiralty Bay, 1948–50.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 250 metres
- Description: mountain in King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
- Also known as: “Czajkowski Needle”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Anvil Crag and Sphinx Hill.
Anvil Crag
Peak
Photo: Acaro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Anvil Crag is a rock crag rising to 300 metres 1 nautical mile west-southwest of Sphinx Hill, King George Island. The vertical crag is at the head of a medial moraine.
Sphinx Hill
Peak
Photo: Acaro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sphinx Hill is a conspicuous, isolated black hill, 145 m, standing 1.5 nautical miles north-northwest of Demay Point on King George Island, South Shetland Islands.
Ecology Glacier
Glacier
Photo: Acaro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ecology Glacier is a glacier flowing northeast into Admiralty Bay, King George Island, north of Llano Point. It was named by the Polish Antarctic Expedition, 1980, after the Institute of Ecology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the sponsor of nearby Arctowski Station.
Pawson Peak
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-62.18897° or 62° 11′ 20″ southLongitude
-58.46935° or 58° 28′ 10″ westElevation
250 metres (820 feet)Open location code
3893RG6J+C7OpenStreetMap ID
node 775825816OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Pawson Peak” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Pawson Peak”
- Chinese: “波森峰”
- Dutch: “Pawson Peak”
- German: “Pawson Peak”
- Ladin: “Pawson Peak”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pawson Peak”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pawson Peak”
- Polish: “Czajkowski Needle”
- Polish: “Iglica Czajkowskiego”
- Swedish: “Pawson Peak”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Blaszczyk Moraine and Wróbel Valley.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sphinx Glacier and Krzemien Hill.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Pawson Peak”. Photo: Acaro, CC BY-SA 3.0.