Crown of Polish Mountains (Polish: Korona Gór Polski) – a list of 28 peaks one per each of the mountain ranges of Poland. It was suggested by geographer, traveller and writer Marek Więckowski and Dr. Wojciech Lewandowski in the tourism and local lore magazine Know Your Country. The list was on December 12, 1997 at a meeting convened by the editors of Know Your Country and at the same time the Club of the Conquerors of the Crown of Polish Mountains was inaugurated.
The original idea was to be a list containing the highest peak of each range. However it was decided to consider only most prominent peaks which had a marked hiking trail at the time of the compiling of the list. In addition, the authors made several significant mistakes in the selection of peaks, e.g. by omitting some mountain ranges in the rank of a mesoregion, and placing others in the rank of a microregion. According to the new physical and geographical regionalization of Poland published in 2018, there are more peaks in the Crown, e.g. the Tatra Mountains in Poland consist of three mesoregions: the Reglowe Tatras, the Western Tatras and the High Tatras.
Peaks
edit| Lp. | Peak | mountain range | High (m a.s.l.) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rysy | Tatra Mountains | 2500[1] |
| 2 | Babia Góra | Żywiec Beskids | 1725 |
| 3 | Śnieżka | Giant Mountains | 1603 |
| 4 | Śnieżnik | Śnieżnik Massif | 1426 |
| 5 | Tarnica | Bieszczady Mountains | 1346 |
| 6 | Turbacz | Gorce Mountains | 1310 |
| 7 | Radziejowa | Beskid Sądecki | 1262 |
| 8 | Skrzyczne | Silesian Beskids | 1257 |
| 9 | Mogielica | Island Beskids | 1171 |
| 10 | Wysoka Kopa | Jizera Mountains | 1126 |
| 11 | Rudawiec | Bialskie Mountains | 1112 |
| 12 | Orlica | Orlickie Mountains | 1084 |
| 13 | Wysoka (Wysokie Skałki) | Pieniny | 1050 |
| 14 | Wielka Sowa | Owl Mountains | 1015 |
| 15 | Lackowa | Low Beskids | 997 |
| 16 | Kowadło | Golden Mountains | 989 |
| 17 | Jagodna | Bystrzyckie Mountains | 977 |
| 18 | Skalnik | Rudawy Janowickie | 945 |
| 19 | Waligóra | Stone Mountains | 936 |
| 20 | Czupel | Little Beskids | 933 |
| 21 | Szczeliniec Wielki | Stołowe Mountains | 919 |
| 22 | Lubomir | Maków Beskids | 904 |
| 23 | Biskupia Kopa | Opawskie Mountains | 889 |
| 24 | Chełmiec | Waldenburg Mountains | 851 |
| 25 | Kłodzka Góra | Bardzkie Mountains | 765 |
| 26 | Skopiec | Katzbach Mountains | 724 |
| 27 | Ślęża | Ślęża Massif | 718 |
| 28 | Łysica | Świętokrzyskie Mountains | 614 |
See also
edit- List of mountains in Poland
- Seven Summits is called literally "Crown of the Earth" in Polish
Further reading
edit- Krzysztof Bzowski, Korona Polskich Gór, 2016, 184pp.
References
edit- ^ "Polskie Rysy ze zmienioną wysokością na nowej mapie Tatr". Onet Podróże (in Polish). 2020-08-23. Archived from the original on 2022-12-22. Retrieved 2023-05-09.
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