Purka Mountain
Purka Mountain is a prominent mountain ridge with two outliers, about 5 nautical miles southeast of Mount Gjeita in the Hansen Mountains. Mapped and named Purka by Norwegian cartographers working from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 1,766 metres
- Description: mountain in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Corry, Mount”
Purka Mountain
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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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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