Spincloud Heights
Spincloud Heights is a heights bordering the north side of Shoesmith Glacier 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Trifid Peak and Russet Pikes.
Trifid Peak
Peak
Trifid Peak is a peak at the head of Shoesmith Glacier 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
Peak
Photo: euphro, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Russet Pikes are Antarctic peaks just east of the mouth of Gaul Cove 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.
Reluctant Island
Islet
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Reluctant Island is a small island 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.
Spincloud Heights
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 448 metres
- Description: mountain in Antarctica
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-67.83852° or 67° 50′ 19″ southLongitude
-67.12947° or 67° 7′ 46″ westElevation
448 metres (1,470 feet)Open location code
374J5V6C+H6OpenStreetMap ID
node 9256227446OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Spincloud Heights” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Spincloud Heights”
- Chinese: “斯平克勞德高地”
- Dutch: “Spincloud Heights”
- German: “Spincloud Heights”
- Ladin: “Spincloud Heights”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Spincloud Heights”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Spincloud Heights”
- Swedish: “Spincloud Heights”
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