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
- a Japanese optics company: see Olympus (company)
- Rolls-Royce Olympus, a jet engine and marine turbine
- a codename for version 3.0.0 of phpBB
- a town on the Greek island of Karpathos
- a science fiction novel (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 | Template:Coor dms | Pechanga |
| Mount Olympus | CA | San Francisco | Template:Coor dms | San Francisco North |
| Mount Olympus | CO | Larimer | Template:Coor dms | Panorama Peak |
| Mount Olympus | HI | Honolulu | Template:Coor dms | Honolulu |
| Mount Olympus | KY | Bath | Template:Coor dms | Olympia |
| Mount Olympus | UT | Salt Lake | Template:Coor dms | Sugar House |
| Mount Olympus | VT | Windsor | Template:Coor dms | Bethel |
| Mount Olympus | WA | Jefferson | Template:Coor dms | Mount Olympus |
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