Brunhilde Peak
Mount Odin is the most prominent peak, though not the highest, in the Asgard Range, of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It rises over 2,000 m just south of Lake Vanda. It was named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition for the Norse god Odin.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Idun Peak and Panorama Peak.
Idun Peak
Peak
Mount Odin is the most prominent peak, though not the highest, in the Asgard Range, of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It rises over 2,000 m just south of Lake Vanda. It was named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition for the Norse god Odin.
Panorama Peak
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.
Veli Peak
Peak
Mount Odin is the most prominent peak, though not the highest, in the Asgard Range, of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It rises over 2,000 m just south of Lake Vanda. It was named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition for the Norse god Odin.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Plane Table Glacier and Dais.
Plane Table Glacier
Locality
Plane Table Glacier is a short, tapering glacier on the north side of Plane Table that extends part way down the south wall of Wright Valley, Victoria Land.
Dais
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 Wright Upper Glacier at its head and Wright Lower Glacier at its mouth, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Dais is situated 10 km northwest of Brunhilde Peak.
Linnaeus Terrace
Locality
Linnaeus Terrace is a rock terrace on the north side of Oliver Peak in the Asgard Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. 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. Linnaeus Terrace is situated 10 km west of Brunhilde Peak.
Brunhilde Peak
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,818 metres
- Description: mountain in Ross Dependency, Antarctica
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-77.6252° or 77° 37′ 31″ southLongitude
161.46602° or 161° 27′ 58″ eastElevation
1,818 metres (5,965 feet)Named after
BrynhildOpen location code
2VJ39FF8+WCOpenStreetMap ID
node 7952832421OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
6630452Wikidata ID
Q4979050
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Brunhilde Peak” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Brunhilde Peak”
- Chinese: “布倫希爾德峰”
- Dutch: “Brunhilde Peak”
- German: “Brunhilde Peak”
- Ladin: “Brunhilde Peak”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brunhilde Peak”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brunhilde Peak”
- Norwegian: “Brunhilde Peak”
- Swedish: “Brunhilde Peak”
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