Rigel, Mount
Mount Rigel is the highest peak of Orion Massif, Rymill Coast, Palmer Land, Antarctica, 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.- Peak rising to 1,910 metres (6,266 feet)
- …is also known as “Mount Rigel”
- Description: mountain in Palmer Land, Antarctica
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- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-70.40338° or 70° 24′ 12″ south
Longitude
-66.86897° or 66° 52′ 8″ west
Open location code
27XMH4WJ+MC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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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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