Mount Orestes

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Mount Orestes
View from Wright Valley to the Bull Pass (center) and the neighboring Mount Orestes (right)

View from Wright Valley to the Bull Pass (center) and the neighboring Mount Orestes (right)

height 1600  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 77 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 16 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 77 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 16 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount Orestes (Antarctica)
Mount Orestes
Mount Orestes with altitude information 1561 on the topographic map sheet (revised 1988)

Mount Orestes with altitude information 1561 on the topographic map sheet (revised 1988)

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Mount Orestes is a striking mountain at a height of 1,600  m , which rises east of the Bull Pass in the Olympus Range in East Antarctic Victoria Land.

Participants in a campaign carried out from 1958 to 1959 as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions named him after Orestes , son of Agamemnon and Klytaimnestra from Greek mythology .

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