Antarctica

Oliver Peak

The Inland Forts are a line of peaks extending between Northwest Mountain and Saint Pauls Mountain, in the of , Antarctica. The peaks were discovered by Ervon r. Koenig and named by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Inland Forts and Sutherland Peak.

Peak
The are a line of peaks extending between Northwest Mountain and Saint Pauls Mountain, in the of , Antarctica. The peaks were discovered by Ervon r. Koenig and named by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04.

Peak
The Inland Forts are a line of peaks extending between Northwest Mountain and Saint Pauls Mountain, in the of , Antarctica. The peaks were discovered by Ervon r. Koenig and named by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04.

Peak
The Inland Forts are a line of peaks extending between Northwest Mountain and Saint Pauls Mountain, in the of , Antarctica. The peaks were discovered by Ervon r. Koenig and named by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Linnaeus Terrace and Labyrinth.

Locality
is a rock terrace on the north side of Oliver Peak in the of , . It is protected under the Antarctic Treaty System as Antarctic Specially Protected Area No.138 because it is one of the richest known sites for the cryptoendolithic communities that colonise the Beacon Sandstone.

Locality
Photo: Dturme, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is an extensive flat upland area which has been deeply eroded, at the west end of , in , Antarctica. It was so named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition because the eroded dolerite of which it is formed gives an appearance of a . is situated 8 km northwest of Oliver Peak.

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 at its head and Wright Lower Glacier at its mouth, in , Antarctica. is situated 9 km northeast of Oliver Peak.

Oliver Peak

Latitude
-77.61053° or 77° 36′ 38″ south
Longitude
161.0469° or 161° 2′ 49″ east
Elevation
2,410 metres (7,907 feet)
Named after
Leon Oliver of New Zealand
Open location code
2VJ392QW+QQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7952832431
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
6622604
Wiki­data ID
Q7087744
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Oliver Peak” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Oliver Peak (tumoy sa bukid)”
  • Cebuano: “Oliver Peak”
  • Chinese: “奧利弗峰”
  • Dutch: “Oliver Peak”
  • German: “Oliver Peak”
  • Ladin: “Oliver Peak”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oliver Peak”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oliver Peak”
  • Swedish: “Oliver Peak (bergstopp)”
  • Swedish: “Oliver Peak”

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Localities in the Area

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Highlights include Mattox Bastion and Wolak Peak.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Oliver Peak”. Photo: ravas51, CC BY-SA 2.0.