Mons Ioannis Pauli II

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Mons Ioannis Pauli II
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height 1110  m
location Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates 80 ° 19 ′ 32 ″  S , 81 ° 31 ′ 31 ″  W Coordinates: 80 ° 19 ′ 32 ″  S , 81 ° 31 ′ 31 ″  W
Mons Ioannis Pauli II (Antarctica)
Mons Ioannis Pauli II

The Mons Ioannis Pauli II ( Latin for John Paul II Mountain ) is a 1110  m high and snow-capped mountain with some rocky outcrops made of lava rock in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the Heritage Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, it rises 1 km west-northwest of the main summit of the Patriot Hills 250 m above the ice sheets in the Horseshoe Valley .

Italian scholars named him in 2003 in honor of the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the pontificate of Pope John Paul II.

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