Faraway, Mount
Mount Faraway is a prominent, snow-covered mountain, 1,175 metres high, marking the southern extremity of the Theron Mountains of Antarctica. It was discovered by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1956, and so named because during days of sledging toward this mountain they never seemed to be any nearer to it.- Peak rising to 1,175 metres (3,855 feet)
- …is also known as “Mount Faraway”
- Description: important Bird Area of Antarctica
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- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-79.20055° or 79° 12′ 2″ south
Longitude
-28.82525° or 28° 49′ 31″ west
Open location code
29GHQ5XF+QV
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OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Faraway, Mount” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Faraway”
- Chinese: “法拉韋山”
- Dutch: “Mount Faraway”
- German: “Mount Faraway”
- Ladin: “Mount Faraway”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Faraway”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Faraway”
- Swedish: “Faraway”
- Swedish: “Mount Faraway”
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