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Pyramiden

The highest point of the Petuniabukta area, where the Czech research station is placed, is the Pyramiden summit (935 m a.s.l.). The present shape of the peak is a result of long-term geomorphological processes of surrounding glaciers - the large Bertil glacier on the opposite side of the mountain and just remains of the Elsa glacier (on the picture). Since 2010 a Czech automatic weather station is installed on the summit. It measures air temperature and humidity, also wind speed and direction is recorded. In the central part of the picture a system of Holocene marine teracces is very well developed. These prove the long-term process of uplifting of the whole region after the recent (Holocene) deglaciation. The diference between the upper (oldest) terrace is more than 50 metres. A fossil skelet of a whale can be found on the upper marine terrace as well.

Jan Kavan

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