Hess Mesa
The Inland Forts are a line of peaks extending between Northwest Mountain and Saint Pauls Mountain, in the Asgard Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The peaks were discovered by Ervon r. Koenig and named by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mudrey Cirque and Freya, Mount.
Mudrey Cirque
Valley
The Inland Forts are a line of peaks extending between Northwest Mountain and Saint Pauls Mountain, in the Asgard Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The peaks were discovered by Ervon r. Koenig and named by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04.
Freya, Mount
Peak
The Inland Forts are a line of peaks extending between Northwest Mountain and Saint Pauls Mountain, in the Asgard Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The peaks were discovered by Ervon r. Koenig and named by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04. Freya, Mount is situated 2½ km northeast of Hess Mesa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Linnaeus Terrace and Labyrinth.
Linnaeus Terrace
Locality
Linnaeus Terrace is a rock terrace on the north side of Oliver Peak in the Asgard Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It is protected under the Antarctic Treaty System as Antarctic Specially Protected Area No.138 because it is one of the richest known sites for the cryptoendolithic communities that colonise the Beacon Sandstone. Linnaeus Terrace is situated 8 km northeast of Hess Mesa.
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. Labyrinth is situated 9 km north of Hess Mesa.
Hess Mesa
- Type: Plateau with an elevation of 1,908 metres
- Description: Mesa in Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Hess Mesa” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Hess Mesa”
- German: “Hess Mesa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hess Mesa”
- Swedish: “Hess Mesa”
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