Antarctica

Great Needle Peak

Great Needle Peak is the summit of the central in on , . Rising to 1,679.5 m, it is the third highest peak of both the mountains and the island after and .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Helmet Peak and Plana Peak.

Peak
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is a conspicuous peak rising to 1,254 metres in , on in the , just southward of the mouth of .

Peak
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is a mostly ice-covered peak on the , , in the , . Surmounting to the north and its tributaries to the east and west.

Peak
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is a sharp peak rising to about 1150 m in of the , eastern in the , overlooking and to the north-northwest, and to the southeast.

Great Needle Peak

Latitude
-62.6704° or 62° 40′ 13″ south
Longitude
-60.0579° or 60° 3′ 29″ west
Elevation
1,680 metres (5,512 feet)
Open location code
379X8WHR+RR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3343660839
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Wiki­data ID
Q5599616
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Satellite Map

Discover Great Needle Peak from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Venetian—“Great Needle Peak” goes by many names.
  • Bulgarian: “Голям иглен връх”
  • Bulgarian: “Голям Иглен връх”
  • Chinese: “大針峰”
  • Dutch: “Great Needle Peak”
  • German: “Great Needle Peak”
  • Italian: “Great Needle Peak”
  • Ladin: “Great Needle Peak”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Great Needle Peak”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Great Needle Peak”
  • Portuguese: “Pico da Grande Agulha”
  • Russian: “Голям Иглен връх”
  • Spanish: “Pico Falsa Aguja”
  • Venetian: “Great Needle Peak”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Sofia and Serdika Peak.

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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 “Great Needle Peak”. Photo: Apcbg, GPL.