Mount Terror
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Key facts
- Elevation
- 3,230 m (10,600 ft)
- Prominence
- 1,728 m (5,669 ft)
- Listing
- Ultra , Ribu
- Rock age
- 820,000–1.75 million years
- Mountain type
- Shield volcano (extinct)
- Volcanic belt
- McMurdo Volcanic Group
- Easiest route
- snow/ice climb
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Encyclopedic overview
Mount Terror is an extinct volcano about 3,230 metres (10,600 ft) high on Ross Island, Antarctica, about 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi) eastward of Mount Erebus. Mount Terror was named in 1841 by polar explorer James Clark Ross after his second ship, HMS Terror.
Geology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mount Terror” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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