Russet Pikes

Russet Pikes are Antarctic peaks just east of the mouth of on Horseshoe Island. Surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1955–57. The name is descriptive; reddish-brown colour is visible on the feature most of the year, the slopes being too steep to retain snow cover for any length of time.
Wikipedia
Photo: euphro, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 230 metres
  • Description: mountain in Antarctica
  • Also known as: “Russet pikes”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Spincloud Heights and Reluctant Island.

Peak
Photo: euphro, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a heights bordering the north side of on Horseshoe Island. Surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1955–57, and so named because clouds of spindrift blowing off the heights give warning of approaching storms.

Islet
Photo: euphro, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small off eastern Horseshoe Island. Surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1955–57. So named because of the feature's apparent reluctance to be recognized as an island; it did not appear on maps of the British Graham Land Expedition 1934–37 and was mapped as a peninsula by FIDS in 1948–50.

Peak
is a peak at the head of in western Horseshoe Island. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1958. The name is descriptive of this three-sided matterhorn-type peak.

Russet Pikes

Latitude
-67.8191° or 67° 49′ 9″ south
Longitude
-67.13449° or 67° 8′ 4″ west
Elevation
230 metres (755 feet)
Open location code
374J5VJ8+96
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9256227764
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
6624545
Wiki­data ID
Q6578186
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Satellite Map

Discover Russet Pikes from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Russet Pikes” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Russet Pikes”
  • Dutch: “Russet Pikes”
  • German: “Russet Pikes”
  • Ladin: “Russet Pikes”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Russet Pikes”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Russet Pikes”
  • Spanish: “Rojizos, picos”
  • Swedish: “Russet Pikes”

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