Mount Aorangi
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Mount Aorangi () is the highest mountain, 3,135 m, in the Millen Range of Antarctica. So named by the NZFMCAE, 1962-63, because of this mountain's cloud-piercing ability, and also with reference to Aoraki/Mount Cook, New Zealand, Aorangi or Aoraki meaning cloud piercer.
This article incorporates text from Mount Aorangi, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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