Antarctica

Absalom, Mount

Mount Absalom is the southernmost and highest mountain of the , in the central part of the . It was first mapped in 1957 by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition and named for Henry W.L.
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,640 metres
  • Description: mountain in Antarctica
  • Also known as: “Mount Absalom”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Venetz Peak.

Peak
is a peak rising to about 1,500 m and surmounting the southeast rim of in the , . It was photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy in 1967 and surveyed by British Antarctic Survey between 1968 and 1971.

Absalom, Mount

Latitude
-80.39763° or 80° 23′ 52″ south
Longitude
-25.51323° or 25° 30′ 48″ west
Elevation
1,640 metres (5,381 feet)
Open location code
29FPJF2P+WP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9255794272
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
6631004
Wiki­data ID
Q6919237
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Satellite Map

Discover Absalom, Mount from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Venetian—“Absalom, Mount” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Absalom”
  • Chinese: “阿布薩龍山”
  • Dutch: “Mount Absalom”
  • German: “Mount Absalom”
  • Italian: “Monte Absalom”
  • Ladin: “Mount Absalom”
  • Low German: “Mount Absalom”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Absalom”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Absalom”
  • Swedish: “Absalom”
  • Swedish: “Mount Absalom”
  • Venetian: “Monte Absalom”

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Highlights include Herbert Mountains and Maclaren Monolith.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Absalom, Mount”. Photo: ravas51, CC BY-SA 2.0.