Mount Olympus (Cyprus)
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Olympus, or Chionistra, (Template:Langx or Χιονίστρα; Template:Langx) at Script error: No such module "convert"., is the highest point in Cyprus.[1] It is located in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus.[2] Mount Olympus peak and the "Troodos Square" fall under the territory of Platres in Limassol District. A British long range radar currently operates at Mount Olympus' peak. It has a highland warm-summer mediterranean climate.
Mount Olympus is formed of ultramafic rock, dominantly serpentinized harzburgite which is part of the Troodos ophiolite.[3]
The Mount Olympus Ski resort consists of the Sun Valley and North Face areas. Each area has its own ski lifts and runs, operated by the Cyprus Ski Club:
- Aphrodite or Sun Valley I, with a 125m T-bar ski lift and beginner-level slopes
- Hermes or Sun Valley II, with a 140m T-bar ski lift and intermediate-level slopes
- Dias/Zeus or North Face I, with a 380m chairlift and advanced-level slopes
- Hera or North Face II, with a 262m T-bar ski lift and beginner-level slopes
In the Sun Valley area there is a 55m rope tow baby lift as well.
Writing in the late first century BC or first century AD, the geographer Strabo reported that on one of its promontories was a temple to Aphrodite Acraea (Template:Langx) which means Aphrodite of the Heights, which women were forbidden to enter.[4]
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References
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- ↑ https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2020JB021079 Aled D. Evans, Damon A. H. Teagle, Dave Craw, Timothy J. Henstock, Ismael Himar Falcon-Suarez. Uplift and Exposure of Serpentinized Massifs: Modeling Differential Serpentinite Diapirism and Exhumation of the Troodos Mantle Sequence, Cyprus. JGR Solid Earth, Volume 126, Issue 6, June 2021.
- ↑ Strabo. Geography, XIV.6.3.
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