Mount Peleus

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Mount Peleus
height 1790  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 77 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 77 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount Peleus (Antarctica)
Mount Peleus

Mount Peleus is a 1790  m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises about 5 km west of Mount Theseus in the Olympus Range .

Participants in a 1958-1959 campaign as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions named him after Peleus , King of the Myrmidons of Phthia from Greek mythology .

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