Cheops, Mount
Mount Cheops is a mountain, over 610 metres high, standing 8 nautical miles south-southeast of Cape Garcia on the west coast of Graham Land. It was mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd in 1956–57, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after the Great Pyramid of Giza because of its distinctive shape.- Peak rising to 610 metres (2,001 feet)
- …is also known as “Mount Cheops”
- Description: mountain in Antarctica
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- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-65.85925° or 65° 51′ 33″ south
Longitude
-64.6109° or 64° 36′ 39″ west
Open location code
376Q49RQ+8J
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Cheops, Mount” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Cheops”
- Chinese: “基奧普斯山”
- Dutch: “Mount Cheops”
- German: “Mount Cheops”
- Ladin: “Mount Cheops”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Cheops”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Cheops”
- Swedish: “Cheops”
- Swedish: “Mount Cheops”
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