Anvil Crag
Anvil Crag is a rock crag rising to 300 metres 1 nautical mile west-southwest of Sphinx Hill, King George Island. The vertical crag is at the head of a medial moraine.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 300 metres
- Description: Antarctic mountain
- Also known as: “The Castle”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pawson Peak and Baranowski Glacier.
Pawson Peak
Peak
Photo: Acaro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pawson Peak is a solitary peak of irregular conical shape, rising to 250 m west-northwest of Sphinx Hill, Admiralty Bay, King George Island. Named in 1977 by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Kenneth Pawson, Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey meteorological observer, Port Lockroy, 1947–48; general assistant, Admiralty Bay, 1948–50.
Baranowski Glacier
Glacier
Photo: Acaro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Baranowski Glacier is a glacier flowing east into Admiralty Bay, King George Island, northwest of Demay Point. It was named by the Polish Antarctic Expedition after Stanisław Baranowski, Polish glaciologist who died on King George Island as a result of an accident at the Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station while a member of the 1977–78 expedition.
Sphinx Hill
Peak
Photo: Acaro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sphinx Hill is a conspicuous, isolated black hill, 145 m, standing 1.5 nautical miles north-northwest of Demay Point on King George Island, South Shetland Islands.
Anvil Crag
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-62.19547° or 62° 11′ 44″ southLongitude
-58.47717° or 58° 28′ 38″ westElevation
300 metres (984 feet)Open location code
3893RG3F+R4OpenStreetMap ID
node 775825754OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Anvil Crag” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Anvil Crag”
- Dutch: “Anvil Crag”
- German: “Anvil Crag”
- Ladin: “Anvil Crag”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Anvil Crag”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Anvil Crag”
- Polish: “Zamek (Wyspa Króla Jerzego)”
- Polish: “Zamek”
- Swedish: “Anvil Crag”
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Explore places such as Blaszczyk Moraine and Wróbel Valley.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sphinx Glacier and Krzemien Hill.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Anvil Crag”. Photo: Acaro, CC BY-SA 3.0.