Dido, Mount
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,255 metres
- Description: mountain in Ross Dependency, Antarctica
- Also known as: “Mount Dido”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Electra, Mount and Leibert Cirque.
Electra, Mount
Peak
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.
Leibert Cirque
Valley
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.
Circe, Mount
Peak
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Labyrinth and Prentice Plateau.
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.
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 8 km west of Dido, Mount.
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 southeast of Dido, Mount.
Dido, Mount
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-77.49345° or 77° 29′ 36″ southLongitude
160.9561° or 160° 57′ 22″ eastElevation
2,255 metres (7,398 feet)Named after
DidoOpen location code
2VJ2GX44+JCOpenStreetMap ID
node 7953145814OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
6632127Wikidata ID
Q6920441
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Swedish—“Dido, Mount” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Menez Dido”
- Cebuano: “Dido (bukid)”
- Cebuano: “Dido”
- Chinese: “狄多山”
- Dutch: “Mount Dido”
- German: “Mount Dido”
- Hebrew: “הר דידו”
- Hebrew: “הר דיידו”
- Ladin: “Mount Dido”
- Low German: “Mount Dido”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Dido”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Dido”
- Swedish: “Dido (berg)”
- Swedish: “Mount Dido”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mt Electra and Minotaur Pass.
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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 “Dido, Mount”. Photo: ravas51, CC BY-SA 2.0.