Mount Aorangi

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Mount Aorangi
height 3135  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 72 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  S , 166 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 72 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  S , 166 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount Aorangi (Antarctica)
Mount Aorangi

At 3,135  m, Mount Aorangi is the highest mountain in the Millen Range in the Victory Mountains of the East Antarctic Victoria Land .

Members of the New Zealand Federated Mountain Club Antarctic Expedition (1962–1963) named it after the term "aorangi" from the Māori , which means something like "cloud piercer".

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