High Window

High Window is a pass in Antarctica. High Window is situated nearby to the locality Aguirre Cerda Research Station.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Neptunes Window and Cathedral Crags.

Mountain saddle

Neptune's Window is a narrow gap between two rock pillars, situated close east of Whalers Bay on the southeast side of Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands.

Peak

Cathedral Crags is a rocky, ice-free hill with steeply cliffed sides, 140 metres high, surmounting the peninsula between Neptune's Window and Fildes Point on the southeast side of Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands.

Ravn Rock is a submerged rock lying in the center of Neptune's Bellows, the entrance to Port Foster, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Charted by the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot, 1908–10.

Nearby places include Aguirre Cerda Research Station.

Locality

Photo: Jorval, Public domain.

President Pedro Aguirre Cerda Station was a Chilean Antarctic base, located at Pendulum Cove in Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands, inaugurated in 1955. Aguirre Cerda Research Station is situated 6 km north of High Window.

Latitude

-62.9875° or 62° 59′ 15″ south

Longitude

-60.55° or 60° 33′ west

Open location code

379X2F72+22

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