Mount Boreas
| Mount Boreas | ||
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| height | 2180 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Boreas is a prominent mountain of 2180 m height, which rises between Mount Aeolus and Mount Dido in the Olympus Range in East Antarctic Victoria Land.
Participants in a 1958 to 1959 campaign as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions named him after Boreas , the personification of the wintry north wind from Greek mythology .
Web links
- Mount Boreas in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Boreas on geographic.org (English)