Wawel Hill
Wawel Hill is a hill rising to 290 m north of Point Hennequin, on the east side of Admiralty Bay, King George Island. Named "Góra Wawel" in 1980 by the Polish Antarctic Expedition after a hill by this name in Kraków, historic site of the castle of the Polish kings.Places of Interest
Highlights include Tern Nunatak.
Tern Nunatak
Peak
Tern Nunatak is a nunatak lying just east of Lussich Cove, Admiralty Bay, on King George Island in the South Shetland Islands. Charted but not named by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, under Charcot.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station.
Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station
Hamlet
The Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station is a permanent Antarctic research station named after the Brazilian Navy Commander Luís Antônio de Carvalho Ferraz, who visited Antarctica many times with the British exploration team and managed to convince his government to create a self-guided Brazilian Antarctic Program.
Wawel Hill
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 290 metres
- Also known as: “Wawel, Mount”
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-62.11581° or 62° 6′ 57″ south
Longitude
-58.37946° or 58° 22′ 46″ west
Elevation
290 metres (951 feet)
Open location code
3893VJMC+M6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
Discover Wawel Hill from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Wawel Hill” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wawel Hill”
- Chinese: “瓦韋爾山”
- Dutch: “Wawel Hill”
- German: “Wawel Hill”
- Ladin: “Wawel Hill”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wawel Hill”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wawel Hill”
- Polish: “Góra Wawel”
- Swedish: “Wawel Hill”
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