Crown of Polish Mountains

Rysy – border summit

Babia Góra

Śnieżka

Śnieżnik

Tarnica

Crown of Polish Mountains – a list of 28 peaks one per each of the mountain ranges of Poland. It was suggested by geographer, traveller and writer  [pl] and dr Wojciech Lewandowski in the tourism and local lore magazine  [pl]. 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[]

See also[]

• List of mountains in Poland
• Seven Summits is called literally "Crown of the Earth" in Polish

Further reading[]

• Krzysztof Bzowski, Korona Polskich Gór, 2016, 184pp.

External links[]

• Official Site