Medea Dome

Medea Dome is a snow dome, 350 metres high, marking the eastern end of on the east coast of , Antarctica. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1953, and was named in 1956 by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in association with Jason Peninsula; in Greek mythology Medea helped Jason to obtain the Golden Fleece and later became his wife.
Wikipedia
  • Water
  • …lies at an elevation of 350 metres (1,148 feet)
  • Description: mountain in Antarctica

Medea Dome

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Latitude
-66.17777° or 66° 10′ 40″ south
Longitude
-62.08739° or 62° 5′ 15″ west
Open location code
375VRWC7+V2
Geo­Names ID
6639542
Wiki­data ID
Q6430368

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Medea Dome” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “美狄亞穹”
  • Dutch: “Medea Dome”
  • German: “Medea Dome”
  • Hebrew: “כיפת מדיאה”
  • Ladin: “Medea Dome”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Medea Dome”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Medea Dome”

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