Davies Heights
The Davies Heights are an elevated area, roughly elliptical in form and 1 nautical mile long, rising to 150 metres in north-central Fildes Peninsula, King George Island.Places of Interest
Highlights include Slalom Lake and Holy Trinity Church.
Slalom Lake
Lake
Slalom Lake is a small lake 0.25 nautical miles north of Ardley Cove, Fildes Peninsula, King George Island. Located near the Soviet Antarctic Expedition Bellingshausen Station, erected 1968, the lake was named "Ozero Slalomnoye".
Holy Trinity Church
Church
Photo: ArJuna, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Holy Trinity Church is a small Russian Orthodox church on King George Island near Bellingshausen Station, a Russian research station in Antarctica. It is one of the eight churches on Antarctica and the southernmost Eastern Orthodox church in the world.
Kitezh, Lake
Lake
Lake Kitezh is a lake 0.3 nautical miles long near the center of Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The largest of many lakes on the peninsula, it has been used as a reservoir by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition Bellingshausen Station and the Chilean Rodolfo Marsh Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include President Eduardo Frei Montalva Base and Villa Las Estrellas.
President Eduardo Frei Montalva Base
Neighborhood
Photo: Mefisto29, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva is the most important Antarctic base of Chile. It is located at Fildes Peninsula, an ice-free area, in front of Fildes Bay, at the west end of King George Island, South Shetland Islands.
Villa Las Estrellas
Photo: SnowSwan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Villa Las Estrellas is a Chilean civilian settlement on King George Island, the largest of the South Shetland Islands off the Antarctic Peninsula. It consists of some dozen prefabs but is a vital service hub for all the bases on the island.
Davies Heights
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 150 metres
- Description: mountain in King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-62.1857° or 62° 11′ 9″ southLongitude
-58.95277° or 58° 57′ 10″ westElevation
150 metres (492 feet)Open location code
3893R27W+PVOpenStreetMap ID
node 9252366906OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Davies Heights” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Davies Heights”
- Chinese: “Beibu Taidi”
- Chinese: “北部臺地”
- Chinese: “戴維斯高地”
- Dutch: “Davies Heights”
- French: “Les Hauts de Davies”
- German: “Davies Heights”
- German: “Davies Höhen”
- Ladin: “Davies Heights”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Davies Heights”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Davies Heights”
- Russian: “Де́йвис Высоты”
- Spanish: “Altos de Davies”
- Swedish: “Davies Heights”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Estación Marítima Antártica and Professor Julio Escudero Base.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Taiyang Lake and Yueliang Lake.
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