Rigel, Mount

Mount Rigel is the highest peak of , Rymill Coast, , , with an elevation of 1,910 m. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey using U.S. Navy aerial photographs taken between 1966 and 1969 and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1976 after the star Rigel in the constellation Orion.
Wikipedia
  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,910 metres
  • Description: mountain in Palmer Land, Antarctica
  • Also known as: “Mount Rigel”

Rigel, Mount

Latitude
-70.40338° or 70° 24′ 12″ south
Longitude
-66.86897° or 66° 52′ 8″ west
Elevation
1,910 metres (6,266 feet)
Open location code
27XMH4WJ+MC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9245647818
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
6624160
Wiki­data ID
Q6923229
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Rigel, Mount” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Rigel”
  • Chinese: “里耶爾山”
  • Dutch: “Mount Rigel”
  • German: “Mount Rigel”
  • Ladin: “Mount Rigel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Rigel”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Rigel”
  • Swedish: “Mount Rigel”
  • Swedish: “Rigel (berg i Antarktis)”

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