Mount Olympus (Antarctica)
| Mount Olympus | ||
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| height | 2400 m | |
| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ S , 156 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
 Map sheet Mount Olympus from 1964, the mountain is in the northeast eighth of the map |
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Mount Olympus is a rectangular, flat and icy mountain of 2,400 m altitude, 8 km east of Mount Henderson in the Britannia Range rises.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1965 after the USS Mount Olympus , which had served the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd as a mission ship in Operation Highjump (1946-1947).
Web links
- Mount Olympus in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Olympus on geographic.org (English)