Rescuers Hills
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 View from the banks of Admiralty Bay to the Rescuers Hills with the US-American Pieter Lenie Station (front), Sphinx Hill (left) and Pawson Peak (right) |
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| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 11 ′ S , 58 ° 27 ′ W | |
The Rescuers Hills ( English ; Polish Wzgórza Ratowników , 'Savior Hills' ) are a group of hills on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . They loom between Ecology Glacier and Sphinx Hill on the shores of Admiralty Bay .
Polish scientists named it in 1980 in honor of Wieslaw Kowalski, Lechoslaw Kumoch and Krzysztof Zubek, who together saved their colleagues Krzysztof Birkenmajer and Stanislaw Baranowski after a serious accident.
Web links
- Rescuers Hill in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Map from the western shore of Admiralty Bay (English)
