Skuta (, ) is the third-highest peak in the

Kamnik Alps Kamnik (; german: Stein''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, pp. 26–27. or ''Stein in Oberkrain'') is a town in northern Slovenia. It is t ...

and is known for the Skuta Glacier, which is the easternmost

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in the

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. A

mountain lodge Mountain Lodge was the former summer residence of the Governor of Hong Kong on Victoria Peak on the Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. The second building was a two-storey Renaissance style home and was demolished in 1946. The site is now the V ...

, operated by the Ljubljana Matica Alpine Club, stands below Skuta.

Name

Although the Slovene common noun ''skuta'' refers to a

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-like cheese, there is no evidence that this word is the source of the mountain's name.

References

External links

Skuta on hribi.net Route Description and Photos (slo)

Skuta on SummitPost.org
Mountains of the Kamnik–Savinja Alps Mountains of Upper Carniola Two-thousanders of Slovenia {{Slovenia-geo-stub