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Mount Olympus
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Mount Olympus (Greek: Όλυμπος ; an aa transleeteratit as Olympos, an on Greek cairts, Oros Olympos) is the heichest muntain in Greece, locatit in the Olympus Range on the mairch atween Thessaly an Macedonie, aboot 80 km (50 mi) soothwast frae Thessaloniki, Greece's seicont lairgest ceety. Mount Olympus haes 52 peaks.[3] The heichest peak Mytikas, meanin "nose", rises tae 2,917.727 [4] metres (9,570 ft). It is ane o the heichest[5] peaks in Europe in terms o topografic prominence.[2]
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Mount Olympus | |
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![]() Mount Olympus frae the wast | |
Heichest pynt | |
Elevation | 2,917.727 m (9,572.60 ft) [1] |
Prominence | 2,355 m (7,726 ft) [2] |
Isolation | 254 kilometre (158 mi) |
Leetin | Kintra heich pynt Ultra |
Coordinates | 40°05′08″N 22°21′31″E |
Geografie | |
Location | Greece |
Parent range | Macedonia and Thessaly, near the Gulf of Salonika |
Climbing | |
First ascent | 2 August 1913 Christos Kakalos, Frederic Boissonnas an Daniel Baud-Bovy |
Easiest route | Hike, some rock scramble |
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Mount Olympus is notit for its very rich flora wi several species. It is a Naitional Pairk o Greece an a Warld's Biosphere Reserve.