Mount Odin (Victoria Land)
| Mount Odin | ||
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| height | 2100 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Odin is a 2100 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is the most distinctive, albeit not the highest, peak in the Asgard Range and towers immediately south of Lake Vanda .
Participants in a campaign from 1958 to 1959 as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions named him after Odin , the father of gods, god of war and god of death in Norse mythology .
Web links
- Mount Odin in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Odin on geographic.org (English)