Mount Aeolus
| Mount Aeolus | ||
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| height | 2000 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Aeolus is a prominent mountain of more than 2000 m height that looms between Mount Boreas and Mount Hercules in the Olympus Range in East Antarctic Victoria Land.
Participants in a 1958-1959 campaign as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions named him after Aeolus , the god of the wind from Greek mythology .
Web links
- Mount Aeolus in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Aeolus on geographic.org (English)