Cockscomb Hill
Cockscomb Hill is a conspicuous hill shaped like a cockscomb, 140 metres high, which rises through the glacier at the head of Mackellar Inlet in Admiralty Bay, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 140 metres
- Description: mountain in the Shetland Islands
- Also known as: “Cockscomb”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wegger Peak and Admiralen Peak.
Wegger Peak
Peak
Wegger Peak is a peak, 305 m, at the west side of the entrance to Mackellar Inlet, Admiralty Bay, on King George Island in the South Shetland Islands. The name "Le Poing" was given to an elevation hereabout by the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot in 1908–10.
Admiralen Peak
Peak
Admiralen Peak, also variously known as Admiration Peak, Pico Puño, or Cerro Le Poing, is a peak, 1,000 feet high, lying 0.7 miles south-southwest of Crepin Point at the west side of Admiralty Bay on King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands.
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.
Cockscomb Hill
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-62.07522° or 62° 4′ 31″ southLongitude
-58.4759° or 58° 28′ 33″ westElevation
140 metres (459 feet)Open location code
3893WGFF+WJOpenStreetMap ID
node 2931379150OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Cockscomb Hill” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Cockscomb Hill”
- Chinese: “雞冠花山”
- Dutch: “Cockscomb Hill”
- German: “Cockscomb Hill”
- Ladin: “Cockscomb Hill”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cockscomb Hill”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cockscomb Hill”
- Spanish: “Cono, Cerro”
- Swedish: “Cockscomb Hill”
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Highlights include Table Hill and Kapitan Peak.
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