Talk:White Elephant (building)

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Did you know... that the Polish Astronomical and Meteorogical Observatory, located on the peak of Pop Iwan (2022 meters above sea level) in Chornohora, was the highest located permanently inhabited building in interbellum Poland?

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Biały Słoń (English: White Elephant), opened on 29 July 1938, is an abandoned campus of the former Polish Astronomical and Meteorological Observatory of University of Warsaw, located at remote area on the peak of Pip Ivan in the Chornohora range of the Carpathian Mountains, Ukraine.

Photograph credit: Khoroshkov

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