Olympus
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Olympus can refer to:
- Mount Olympus, in Pieria, northern Greece, was the home of the twelve gods of Olympus in Greek mythology
- Olympos (a common variation of Olympus) is a valley at the south coast of Turkey, 90km southwest of Antalya city near the Town of Kemer.
- a Japanese optics company: see Olympus Corporation
- Rolls-Royce Olympus, a jet engine and marine turbine
- a codename for version 3.0.0 of phpBB
- Olympus Corporation- a company that sells cameras
- a town on the Greek island of Karpathos
- a science fiction novel, Olympos (ISBN 0-38097-894-6) by American author Dan Simmons, released in 2005
- Several mountains, named after the Greek mythological home:
- * An extinct volcano on Mars and the largest known mountain in the solar system: see Olympus Mons
- *Mount Olympus (Cyprus) in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus
- *There are also as many as 18 other mountains by the same name, including ones in the Greek islands, Asia Minor, New Zealand, Tasmania and 8 peaks in the United States (see table).
| Name | State | County | Coordinates | USGS 7.5' Map |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Mount Olympus] | CA | San Diego | Pechanga | |
| [Mount Olympus] | CA | San Francisco | San Francisco North | |
| [Mount Olympus] | CO | Larimer | Panorama Peak | |
| [Mount Olympus] | HI | Honolulu | Honolulu | |
| [Mount Olympus] | KY | Bath | Olympia | |
| Mount Olympus | UT | Salt Lake | Sugar House | |
| [Mount Olympus] | VT | Windsor | Bethel | |
| Mount Olympus | WA | Jefferson | Mount Olympus |
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