Prospect Mesa
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.Places of Interest
Highlights include Orestes, Mount.
Orestes, Mount
Peak
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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. Orestes, Mount is situated 3½ km northeast of Prospect Mesa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vanda Station and Jones Terrace.
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. Vanda Station is situated 5 km west of Prospect Mesa.
Jones Terrace
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. Jones Terrace is situated 5 km east of Prospect Mesa.
Prospect Mesa
- Type: Plateau with an elevation of 679 metres
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Prospect Mesa” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Prospect Mesa”
- Chinese: “普羅斯佩克特山”
- Dutch: “Prospect Mesa”
- German: “Prospect Mesa”
- Ladin: “Prospect Mesa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Prospect Mesa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Prospect Mesa”
- Swedish: “Prospect Mesa”
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Highlights include Wright Valley and Sandy Glacier.
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