Jason, Mount
The Olympus Range is a primarily ice-free mountain range of Victoria Land, Antarctica, with peaks over 2,000 metres high, between Victoria Valley and McKelvey Valley on the north and Wright Valley on the south.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,920 metres
- Description: mountain in Ross Dependency, Antarctica
- Also known as: “Mount Jason”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Goldich Crest and Hercules, Mount.
Goldich Crest
Peak
The Olympus Range is a primarily ice-free mountain range of Victoria Land, Antarctica, with peaks over 2,000 metres high, between Victoria Valley and McKelvey Valley on the north and Wright Valley on the south.
Hercules, Mount
Peak
Mount Hercules is a large, flat-topped, elevated feature between Mount Aeolus and Mount Jason in the Olympus Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition for Hercules, a figure in Greek mythology.
Marsh Cirque
Valley
Mount Hercules is a large, flat-topped, elevated feature between Mount Aeolus and Mount Jason in the Olympus Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition for Hercules, a figure in Greek mythology.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nakai Snowfield and Vanda Station.
Nakai Snowfield
Locality
The Olympus Range is a primarily ice-free mountain range of Victoria Land, Antarctica, with peaks over 2,000 metres high, between Victoria Valley and McKelvey Valley on the north and Wright Valley on the south.
Vanda Station
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Vanda Station was an Antarctic research base in the western highlands of the Ross Dependency, specifically on the shore of Lake Vanda, at the mouth of Onyx River, in the Wright Valley.
Prospect Mesa
Locality
Prospect Mesa is a low mesa in Victoria Land, in eastern Antarctica. It lies below Bull Pass on the north side of Wright Valley. The name designates that it is part of the regional geological Prospect Formation. Prospect Mesa is situated 9 km southeast of Jason, Mount.
Jason, Mount
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-77.48888° or 77° 29′ 20″ southLongitude
161.56052° or 161° 33′ 38″ eastElevation
1,920 metres (6,299 feet)Named after
JasonOpen location code
2VJ3GH66+C6OpenStreetMap ID
node 7952961577OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
6621742Wikidata ID
Q6921484
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Jason, Mount” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Jason (bukid)”
- Cebuano: “Jason”
- Chinese: “詹森山”
- Dutch: “Mount Jason”
- German: “Mount Jason”
- Ladin: “Mount Jason”
- Low German: “Mount Jason”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Jason”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Jason”
- Spanish: “Monte Jason”
- Swedish: “Jason (berg)”
- Swedish: “Mount Jason”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Vanda Station and Boulder Pavement.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mt Hercules and Vanda, Lake.
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