Aztec Mountain
Aztec Mountain is a small pyramidal mountain over 2,000 metres high, just southwest of Maya Mountain and west of Beacon Valley in Victoria Land. It was so named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition because its shape resembles the pyramidal ceremonial platforms used by the Aztec and Maya civilizations.Places of Interest
Highlights: Maya Mountain and Pyramid Mountain.
Aztec Mountain
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,000 metres
- Description: mountain in Ross Dependency, Antarctica
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-77.80232° or 77° 48′ 8″ south
Longitude
160.55255° or 160° 33′ 9″ east
Elevation
2,000 metres (6,562 feet)
Named after
Open location code
2VJ25HX3+32
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Aztec Mountain” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Aztec Mountain (bukid sa Antarctica)”
- Cebuano: “Aztec Mountain”
- Chinese: “阿茲特克山”
- Dutch: “Aztec Mountain”
- German: “Aztec Mountain”
- Ladin: “Aztec Mountain”
- Low German: “Aztec Mountain”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aztec Mountain”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aztec Mountain”
- Swedish: “Aztec Mountain (berg i Antarktis)”
- Swedish: “Aztec Mountain”
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Places to explore: Linnaeus Terrace and Labyrinth.
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Highlights: Incas Leap and Mount Weller.
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