Olympus Range
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 Location of the Antarctic dry valleys (left) and their mountain ranges on McMurdo Sound |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 28 ′ S , 162 ° 55 ′ E | |
.jpg) Topographic map of the Antarctic dry valleys |
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The Olympus Range ( German Olympus Mountains ) is a mountain range in Antarctica .
location
It lies between Victoria Valley and McKelvey Valley in the north and Wright Valley in the south, in the Antarctic Dry Valleys area in Victoria Land . The mountain range extends from the plateau of Victoria Land in the west to McMurdo Sound in the east. It is about 75 km long, at its widest point about 11 km wide. Its mean heights are around 1,300 to 1,600 m. The mountain range is cut roughly in the middle by the 600 m high Bull Pass . The Olympus Range is part of the Transantarctic Mountains . Participants in a 1958-1959 campaign as part of Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions , which also mapped the area, named it after the seat of the gods of Greek mythology .
Mountains, ridges and high plateaus
Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap
- Mount Aeolus ( 2200 m )
- Mount Hercules ( 2200 m )
- Mount Boreas ( 2180 m )
- Mount Dido ( 2070 m )
- Mount Circe (> 2000 m )
- Mount Cassidy ( 1917 m )
- Apollo Peak ( 1900 m )
- Prentice Plateau ( 1850 m )
- Mount Theseus ( 1830 m )
- Mount Thrace ( 1800 m )
- Mount Peleus ( 1790 m )
- Wrenn Peak ( 1750 m )
- Mount Helios ( 1650 m )
- Mount Cerberus ( 1600 m )
- Mount Orestes ( 1600 m )
- Mount Booth ( 1575 m )
- Mount Allen ( 1400 m )
- Mount Doorly ( 1066 m )
- Jones Terrace (> 1000 m )
- Helios Ridge
- McClelland Ridge
- Emergency Ridge
- Parish Ledge ( 1642 m )
- Parish bars
- Prospect Mesa
- Robertson Ridge
Valleys
- Argo Gully
- Baumann Valley
- Dean Cirque
- Fritsen Valley
- Glover Cirque
- Hawkins Cirque
- Kellogg Valley
- Leibert Cirque
- Malin Valley
- Pentecost Cirque
- Priscu Valley
- Sanford Valley
- Thomas Valley
- Marsh Cirque
- Murphy Valley
- Orestes Valley
- Stuiver Valley
- Virginia Valley
- Wall Valley
glacier
Only a few glaciers flow from the Olympus Range into the neighboring dry valleys:
- Cerberus glacier
- Chinn glacier
- Clark Glacier
- Clio glacier
- Enyo glacier
- Eos glacier
- Nakai snow field
- Orestes glacier
- Sandy Glacier
Lakes
Web links
- Olympus Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Olympus Range on geographic.org (English)