Olympus, Cyprus

Local or Alternate Name(s)	Alternate: Khionistra Alternate: Chionistra Slovenian: Olimp
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	34° 56' 11'' N, 32° 51' 52'' E 34.93651, 32.86454 (Dec Deg) 487630 E 3866011 N, Zone 36 (UTM)
Country	Cyprus (Highest Point)
State/Province	Limassol (Highest Point)
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Olympus":      Wikipedia Search      Microsoft Bing Search      Google Search      Yahoo Search Other Web Sites      Olympos (Chionistra) at SummitPost.org      Weather for Mount Olympus Cyprus at Mountain-Forecast.com      Χιονίστρα (Chionistra) at Summits on the Air (Amateur Radio) Lists that contain Olympus:      Core Europe 50 Most Prominent Peaks (Rank #32)      UN Member State High Points (Rank #120)      World Country High Points (Rank #130)      Core Europe Peaks with 1500 meters of Prominence (Rank #32)      Ultras of Core Europe (Rank #32)      Ultras of Europe (Rank #38)      Asia UN Member High Points (Rank #33)      Asia Country High Points (Rank #34)      Ultras of Eastern Europe and the Balkans (Rank #12)      Middle East Country High Points (Rank #11)      Asia Island High Points above 1000 meters (Rank #26)      Asia Range3 High Points (Rank #91) Selected Guidebook(s) for this Peak:        Europe's High Points (McKeating, Crolla)
Ascent Info Total ascents/attempts logged by registered Peakbagger.com users: 81      Show all viewable ascents/attempts (Total: 77) Selected Trip Reports:      1980-10-16 by David Howells      2005-08-01 by Igor Ilyin      2006-11-10 by Lee Newton      2010-04-11 by Damo Buch      2011-03-08 by Norbert Schaefer      2012-04-25 by Richard Mclellan      2012-04-29 by Andrej Gerber      2013-03-29 by Nick Down      2013-08 by Tom Milliard      2014-11-14 by Eric Gilbertson      2016-12-05 by Lee Humphries      2018-05-20 by Howe Siang Tan (GPS Track)      2021-07-06 by Matthias Ihl (GPS Track)      2021-08-09 by Christoph Winkler      2021-12-02 by Bill Hughes
Nearby Peak Searches:      Radius Search - Nearest Peaks to Olympus      Elevation Ladder from Olympus      Prominence Ladder from Olympus

You can go this far, but the last part is a big no no (2014-05-16). Photo by Louise Ekroth. Click here for larger-size photo.
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Prominence	Clean Prominence: 1951 m/6401 ft   Optimistic Prominence: 1951 m/6401 ft   Key Col: Mediterranean Sea    0 m/0 ft
Isolation	Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)    Distance: 148.09 km/92.02 mi    Isolation Limit Point: 36.2617, 32.6692 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     Akdað  (N)
Ranges	Continent: Asia Range2: Levant Ranges Range3: Cyprus (Highest Point)
Drainage Basins	Eastern Mediterranean Mediterranean Sea Atlantic Ocean
Island	Cyprus (Highest Point)
Data Source	GPS Reading or LIDAR
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Other Photos

Highest legal point in Cyprus (2016-12-05). Photo by Lee Humphries. Click here for larger-size photo.

1952 m - Olympos (2016-05-10). Photo by Jan Matiášek. Click here for larger-size photo.

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