Friesland, Mount
Mount Friesland is a mountain rising to 1,700.2 metres in the homonymous Friesland Ridge, one of the two summits of Tangra Mountains and Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica along with neighbouring St. Boris Peak.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,790 metres
- Description: Mountain in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
- Also known as: “Mount Friesland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Boris Peak and Academia Peak.
St. Boris Peak
Peak
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St. Boris Peak is an ice-covered mountain rising to 1,700 m in Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
Academia Peak
Peak
Photo: Apcbg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Academia Peak is a peak rising to 1,253 m in the Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains on eastern Livingston Island in Antarctica. The peak has precipitous and ice-free north-western slopes and surmounts Huntress Glacier to the northwest and southwest.
Lyaskovets Peak
Peak
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Lyaskovets Peak is the easternmost peak of Friesland Ridge in the Tangra Mountains, eastern Livingston Island and has an elevation of 1,473 m. The peak is bounded by Catalunyan Saddle on the west and Shipka Saddle on the east, and is heavily glaciated and crevassed, with precipitous western, southern and eastern slopes.
Friesland, Mount
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-62.66895° or 62° 40′ 8″ southLongitude
-60.18706° or 60° 11′ 13″ westElevation
1,790 metres (5,873 feet)Open location code
379X8RJ7+C5OpenStreetMap ID
node 3235927465OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Friesland, Mount” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل فريزلاند”
- Basque: “Friesland mendia”
- Bulgarian: “Фрисланд”
- Cebuano: “Friesland (bukid)”
- Cebuano: “Friesland”
- Chinese: “弗里斯蘭山”
- Dutch: “Mount Friesland”
- French: “Mount Friesland”
- German: “Mount Friesland”
- Italian: “Monte Friesland”
- Ladin: “Mount Friesland”
- Latvian: “Frīzlends”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Friesland”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Friesland”
- Polish: “Mount Friesland”
- Spanish: “Barnard, Monte”
- Spanish: “Monte Friesland”
- Swedish: “Friesland (berg)”
- Swedish: “Mount Friesland”
- Ukrainian: “Фрисланд”
- Venetian: “Monte Friesland”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Camp Academia and Station P.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Simeon Peak and Zograf Peak.
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