Olympus Range () is a primarily ice-free

mountain A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually highe ...

range of

Victoria Land Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. I ...

, Antarctica, with peaks over , between

Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada * Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory * Victoria, Seychelle ...

and McKelvey Valleys on the north and

Wright Valley The Wright Valley, named for Sir Charles Wright, is the central one of the three large Dry Valleys in the Transantarctic Mountains, located west of McMurdo Sound at approximately . Wright Valley contains the Onyx River, the longest river in ...

on the south. It was mapped by the

Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition The Antarctic Research Centre (ARC) is part of the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington. Its mission is to research " Antarctic climate history and processes, and their influence on the global clim ...

, 1958–59, and named for the mythological home of the

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. Peaks in the range are named for figures in

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* I.B. Campbell, G.G.C. Claridge
Antarctica: Soils, Weathering Processes and Environment
PP 30 - 32 * Vivien Gornitz
Rising Seas: Past, Present, Future
P 64 * A.R. Lewis, D.R. Marchant, A.C. Ashworth, S.R. Hemming, M.L. Machlus
Major middle Miocene global climate change: Evidence from East Antarctica and the Transantarctic Mountains
* Adam R. Lewis, David R. Marchant, Allan C. Ashworth, Lars Hedenäs, Sidney R. Hemming, Jesse V. Johnson, Melanie J. Leng, Malka L. Machlus, Angela E. Newton, J. Ian Raine,

Jane K. Willenbring Jane Kathryn Willenbring is an American geomorphologist and professor at Stanford University. She is best known for using cosmogenic nuclides to investigate landscape changes and dynamics. She has won multiple awards including the Antarctica Ser ...

, Mark Williams, and Alexander P. Wolfe
Mid-Miocene cooling and the extinction of tundra in continental Antarctica
PNAS August 5, 2008 105 (31) 10676–10680; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0802501105 * Roger Highfield

The Telegraph, Sunday 25 November 2018 Mountain ranges of Victoria Land McMurdo Dry Valleys {{McMurdoDryValleys-geo-stub

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