- Mount Grendal
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Mount Grendal (77°34′S 162°0′E / 77.567°S 162°E) is a peak rising to 2,000 m between the heads of Valhalla Glacier and Conrow Glacier in the Asgard Range, Victoria Land. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in 1962 from U.S. Navy aerial photographs taken 1947-59. Named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) in 1983 from association with Mount Beowulf after Grendal (Grendel), the monster in the Old English epic poem Beowulf.
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