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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Wikidata facts
- Elevation
- 3262
- Image
- ErebusTerror.jpg
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- topographic prominence
- 1728
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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.
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