Mount Pleiones

Mount Pleiones
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height	3020 m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	The Pleiades , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	72 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 165 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 72 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 165 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ E
Type	Stratovolcano , extinguished

Mount Pleiones is an extinct volcano in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . It is the southernmost and with a height of 3020 m at the same time the second highest peak in the group The Pleiades .

The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after Pleione , wife of the titan Atlas from Greek mythology.

Web links

Mount Pleiones in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
Mount Pleiones on geographic.org (English)

Individual evidence

^ Philip R. Kyle: Volcanic geology of the Pleiades, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica . Ohio State University, Institute of Polar Studies, Columbus 1982 (English, freely available online through researchgate.net ).

[1] Philip R. Kyle: Volcanic geology of the Pleiades, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica . Ohio State University, Institute of Polar Studies, Columbus 1982 (English, freely available online through researchgate.net ).