Vortex Col
Wright Upper Glacier is an ice apron at the upper west end of Wright Valley in the Asgard Range, Antarctica. It is formed by a glacier flowing east from the inland ice plateau.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Baldr, Mount.
Baldr, Mount
Peak
The Inland Forts are a line of peaks extending between Northwest Mountain and Saint Pauls Mountain, in the Asgard Range of Victoria Land, 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 Prentice Plateau and Labyrinth.
Prentice Plateau
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. Prentice Plateau is situated 9 km northeast of Vortex Col.
Labyrinth
Locality
Photo: Dturme, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Labyrinth is an extensive flat upland area which has been deeply eroded, at the west end of Wright Valley, in Victoria Land, 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 labyrinth. Labyrinth is situated 10 km east of Vortex Col.
Vortex Col
- Type: Mountain saddle with an elevation of 1,981 metres
- Description: mountain pass in Antarctica
- Categories: mountain pass and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-77.55833° or 77° 33′ 30″ southLongitude
160.43495° or 160° 26′ 6″ eastElevation
1,981 metres (6,499 feet)Open location code
2VJ2CCRM+MXOpenStreetMap ID
node 11054014848OpenStreetMap feature
natural=saddle
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Vortex Col” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Vortex Col”
- German: “Vortex Col”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vortex Col”
- Swedish: “Vortex Col”
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Highlights include Mt Baldr and Hawkins Cirque.
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