Idun Peak
Mount Odin is the most prominent peak, though not the highest, in the Asgard Range, of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It rises over 2,000 m just south of Lake Vanda. It was named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition for the Norse god Odin.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Veli Peak and Mount Thundergut.
Veli Peak
Peak
Mount Odin is the most prominent peak, though not the highest, in the Asgard Range, of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It rises over 2,000 m just south of Lake Vanda. It was named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition for the Norse god Odin.
Mount Thundergut
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.
Brunhilde Peak
Peak
Mount Odin is the most prominent peak, though not the highest, in the Asgard Range, of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It rises over 2,000 m just south of Lake Vanda. It was named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition for the Norse god Odin.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Plane Table Glacier and Linnaeus Terrace.
Plane Table Glacier
Locality
Plane Table Glacier is a short, tapering glacier on the north side of Plane Table that extends part way down the south wall of Wright Valley, Victoria Land.
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 10 km northwest of Idun Peak.
Idun Peak
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,813 metres
- Description: mountain in Antarctica
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-77.63882° or 77° 38′ 20″ southLongitude
161.4481° or 161° 26′ 53″ eastElevation
1,813 metres (5,948 feet)Named after
IðunnOpen location code
2VJ39C6X+F6OpenStreetMap ID
node 7952832424OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
6635398Wikidata ID
Q8351642
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Idun Peak” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Idun Peak”
- Chinese: “伊敦峰”
- Dutch: “Idun Peak”
- German: “Idun Peak”
- Ladin: “Idun Peak”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Idun Peak”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Idun Peak”
- Swedish: “Idun Peak”
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