Hercules, Mount
Mount Hercules is a large, flat-topped, elevated feature between Mount Aeolus and Mount Jason in the Olympus Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition for Hercules, a figure in Greek mythology.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,785 metres
- Description: mountain in Ross Dependency, Antarctica
- Also known as: “Mount Hercules”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Marsh Cirque and Jason, Mount.
Marsh Cirque
Valley
Mount Hercules is a large, flat-topped, elevated feature between Mount Aeolus and Mount Jason in the Olympus Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition for Hercules, a figure in Greek mythology.
Jason, Mount
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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.
Aeolus, 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 Nakai Snowfield and Vanda Station.
Nakai Snowfield
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.
Vanda Station
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Vanda Station was an Antarctic research base in the western highlands of the Ross Dependency, specifically on the shore of Lake Vanda, at the mouth of Onyx River, in the Wright Valley.
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 8 km southwest of Hercules, Mount.
Hercules, Mount
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-77.48443° or 77° 29′ 4″ southLongitude
161.42161° or 161° 25′ 18″ eastElevation
1,785 metres (5,856 feet)Named after
HeraclesOpen location code
2VJ3GC8C+6JOpenStreetMap ID
node 5050064209OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
6634825Wikidata ID
Q6921170
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Hercules, Mount” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Hercules”
- Chinese: “赫爾克里士山”
- Dutch: “Mount Hercules”
- German: “Mount Hercules”
- Ladin: “Mount Hercules”
- Low German: “Mount Hercules”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Hercules”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Hercules”
- Norwegian: “Mount Hercules”
- Spanish: “Monte Hércules”
- Swedish: “Hercules”
- Swedish: “Mount Hercules”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Vanda Station and Boulder Pavement.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mt Hercules and Goldich Crest.
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