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.
- Peak
- Description: mountain in Antarctica
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Trifid Peak
Peak
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Russet Pikes
Russet Pikes are Antarctic peaks just east of the mouth of Gaul Cove on Horseshoe Island.
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Spincloud Heights
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- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-67.83852° or 67° 50′ 19″ south
Longitude
-67.12947° or 67° 7′ 46″ west
Open location code
374J5V6C+H6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural = peak
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Spincloud Heights” goes by many names.
Spincloud HeightsCebuano
斯平克勞德高地Chinese
Spincloud HeightsDutch
Spincloud HeightsLadin
Spincloud HeightsNorwegian Bokmål
Spincloud HeightsNorwegian Nynorsk
Spincloud HeightsSwedish
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