Aeolus, 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.- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,000 metres
- Description: mountain in Ross Dependency, Antarctica
- Also known as: “Mount Aeolus”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Boreas, Mount and Hercules, Mount.
Boreas, Mount
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.
Thrace, Mount
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nakai Snowfield and Dais.
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.
Dais
Locality
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
The Wright Valley is a large east–west trending valley, formerly occupied by a glacier but now ice free except for Wright Upper Glacier at its head and Wright Lower Glacier at its mouth, in Victoria Land, Antarctica.
Aeolus, Mount
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-77.48699° or 77° 29′ 13″ southLongitude
161.26236° or 161° 15′ 45″ eastElevation
2,000 metres (6,562 feet)Named after
AeolusOpen location code
2VJ3G776+6WOpenStreetMap ID
node 7952961579OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
6621779Wikidata ID
Q6919269
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Aeolus, Mount” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Aeolus”
- Chinese: “埃俄羅斯山”
- Dutch: “Mount Aeolus”
- French: “mont Aeolus”
- French: “Mont Aeolus”
- German: “Mount Aeolus”
- Ladin: “Mount Aeolus”
- Low German: “Mount Aeolus (Antarktika)”
- Low German: “Mount Aeolus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Aeolus”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Aeolus i Antarktis”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Aeolus”
- Spanish: “Monte Eolo”
- Swedish: “Mount Aeolus, Antarktis”
- Swedish: “Mount Aeolus”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Vanda Station and Boulder Pavement.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mt Hercules and Marsh Cirque.
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