Purka Mountain

Purka Mountain is a prominent mountain ridge with two outliers, about 5 nautical miles southeast of in the . Mapped and named Purka by Norwegian cartographers working from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37.
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  • Type: Mountain with an elevation of 1,766 metres
  • Description: mountain in Antarctica
  • Also known as: Corry, Mount

Purka Mountain

Latitude
-68.25° or 68° 15′ south
Longitude
58.58333° or 58° 35′ east
Elevation
1,766 metres (5,794 feet)
Open location code
3H3WQH2M+28
Geo­Names ID
6623718
Wiki­data ID
Q6580932
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Satellite Map

Discover Purka Mountain from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Purka Mountain” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: Purka Mountain
  • Chinese: 普爾卡山
  • Dutch: Purka Mountain
  • German: Purka Mountain
  • German: Purka
  • Ladin: Purka Mountain
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Purka Mountain
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Purka
  • Swedish: Purka Mountain

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About Mapcarta. 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 “Purka Mountain”. Photo: ravas51, CC BY-SA 2.0.