Staw Staszica

Staw Staszica is a lake in Gmina Bukowina Tatrzańska, Tatra County, Małopolskie and has an elevation of 1,785 metres. Staw Staszica is situated nearby to the locality Ucho, as well as near Hińczowa Zatoka.

Photo: Selso, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Type: Lake (intermittent)
Description: lake in Poland
Also known as: “Niżnie Stawki”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Eye of the Sea and Rysy.

Eye of the Sea

Lake

Photo: Tomasz O., Public domain.

Morskie Oko, or Eye of the Sea in English, is the largest and fourth-deepest lake in the Tatra Mountains, in southern Poland. It is located deep within the Tatra National Park in the Rybi Potok Valley, of the High Tatras mountain range at the base of the Mięguszowiecki Summits, in Lesser Poland Voivodeship.

Rysy

Peak

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Rysy is a mountain in the crest of the High Tatras, eastern part of the Tatra Mountains, located on the border between Poland and Slovakia. Rysy has three summits: the middle at 2,501 m; the north-western at 2,500 m; and the south-eastern at 2,473 m.

Veľké Hincovo pleso

Lake

Photo: Kristo, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Veľké Hincovo pleso is the biggest and deepest mountain lake of glacial origin in the High Tatras, Slovakia. The maximum depth is 53 metres. Its surface remains frozen for around 270 days per year.