Mount Apolotok
| Mount Apolotok | ||
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| height | 2555 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Freyberg Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Apolotok is a striking and 2555 m high mountain made of red granite in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises up in the Salamander Range of the Freyberg Mountains .
The translation of the name, borrowed from the language of the Eskimos, is "the great red". The Northern Group gave it this descriptive name from a campaign carried out from 1963 to 1964 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition .
Web links
- Mount Apolotok in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Apolotok on geographic.org (English)