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 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

Lp.Peakmountain rangeHigh (m a.s.l.)
1RysyTatra Mountains 2500[1]
2Babia GóraŻywiec Beskids 1725
3ŚnieżkaGiant Mountains 1603
4ŚnieżnikŚnieżnik Massif 1426
5TarnicaBieszczady Mountains 1346
6TurbaczGorce Mountains 1310
7RadziejowaBeskid Sądecki 1262
8SkrzyczneSilesian Beskids 1257
9MogielicaIsland Beskids 1171
10Wysoka KopaJizera Mountains 1126
11RudawiecBialskie Mountains 1112
12OrlicaOrlickie Mountains 1084
13Wysoka (Wysokie Skałki)Pieniny 1050
14Wielka SowaOwl Mountains 1015
15LackowaLow Beskids 997
16KowadłoGolden Mountains 989
17JagodnaBystrzyckie Mountains 977
18SkalnikRudawy Janowickie 945
19WaligóraStone Mountains 936
20CzupelLittle Beskids 933
21Szczeliniec WielkiStołowe Mountains 919
22LubomirMaków Beskids 904
23Biskupia KopaOpawskie Mountains 889
24ChełmiecWaldenburg Mountains 851
25Kłodzka GóraBardzkie Mountains 765
26SkopiecKatzbach Mountains 724
27ŚlężaŚlęża Massif 718
28ŁysicaŚwiętokrzyskie Mountains 614

See also

Further reading

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

References

  1. ↑ "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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