Observatory "White Elephant"

Ukraine / Ivano-Frankivska / Verkhovyna /
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Biały Słoń (English: White Elephant) was the campus of the Polish Astronomical and Meteorogical Observatory, located on the peak of Pop Iwan (2022 meters above sea level) in the Chornohora range of the Carpathian Mountains. This area belonged to the Second Polish Republic during the interbellum, but is now part of Ukraine. Bialy Slon, completed in the summer of 1938, was the highest-elevation permanently inhabited building in Poland.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biały_Słoń
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Coordinates:   48°2'48"N   24°37'39"E
This article was last modified 13 years ago