Mount Thrace
| Mount Thrace | ||
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| height | 1800 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Thrace is a 1,800 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Olympus Range it rises on the southeast side of Mount Boreas , with which it is connected by a mountain ridge.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2004 after Thrace ( English Thrace ), home of Boreas , the personification of the wintry north wind from Greek mythology .
Web links
- Mount Thrace in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Thrace on geographic.org (English)