Harnasie Hill [SEP] continent
Harnasie Hill
Harnasie Hill () is a steep-sided hill rising to between Vauréal Peak and Martins Head in the southern portion of Krakow Peninsula, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It was named "Wierch Harnasie" (Harnasie Hill) by the Polish Antarctic Expedition, 1980, after the opera "Harnasie" by Karol Szymanowski.
Harnasie
Harnasie, Op. 55, is a ballet-pantomime written by the Polish composer Karol Szymanowski between 1923 and 1931, to a libretto by Jerzy Rytard and his wife and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, the librettist of Symanowski's opera, "King Roger".
The story is set in the Tatra mountains and is based on the legend of the abduction of a bride by the robber Harnaś and his band (the "Harnasie" of the title). Szymanowski first visited Zakopane in the Tatras in 1921 and studied the