Crimson Hill
Crimson Hill is a prominent, ice-free hill, 95 metres high, on the south side of Pendulum Cove, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands. It was so named in 1829 by the British expedition under Foster, because there was a prominent stratum of brickstone in the hill.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Relict Lake and Goddard Hill.
Relict Lake
Lake
Relict Lake is a small lake lying southeast of Pendulum Cove on Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands. So named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1957 because when Lieutenant E.N.
Goddard Hill
Peak
Bynon Hill is an ice-covered, dome-shaped hill with two rounded summits, 340 metres high, standing 1.5 nautical miles north of Pendulum Cove, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The name appears on an Argentine government chart of 1953.
Pond, Mount
Peak
Mount Pond is a peak, 550 m in height, standing 2.8 km east-south-east of Pendulum Cove, on Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aguirre Cerda Research Station.
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.
Crimson Hill
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 95 metres
- Description: hill at Antarctica
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-62.93914° or 62° 56′ 21″ southLongitude
-60.59664° or 60° 35′ 48″ westElevation
95 metres (312 feet)Open location code
379X3C63+88OpenStreetMap ID
node 9252488376OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Crimson Hill” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Crimson Hill”
- Chinese: “克里姆森山”
- Dutch: “Crimson Hill”
- German: “Crimson Hill”
- Ladin: “Crimson Hill”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Crimson Hill”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Crimson Hill”
- Spanish: “Cerro Crimson”
- Spanish: “Varela, Morro”
- Swedish: “Crimson Hill”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include ASPA-140G Pendulum Cove and ASPA-140H Mount Pond.
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