Wawel Hill
| Wawel Hill | ||
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| height | 290 m | |
| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 7 ′ 9 ″ S , 58 ° 22 ′ 58 ″ W | |
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The Wawel Hill ( Polish Góra Wawel ) is a 290 m high hill on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises north of Point Hennequin on the east bank of Admiralty Bay .
Participants in a Polish Antarctic expedition named it in 1980 after the Wawel , the residence of the Polish kings in Krakow . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee transferred the Polish name to English in 1984.
Web links
- Wawel Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wawel Hill on geographic.org (English)