We report on the analysis of unique coverage of the north pole of Venus using a subset of 13 images from a total of about 775 synthetic aperture radar orbits during cycle 1 of the Magellan mission. We present images at 13 distinctly different azimuths that range over 360¿ in longitude and that show the topographic relief at vastly different imaging geometries at intervals of about 20¿. A pair of intersecting or crossing orbits is used to assess the topographic relief with stereo radargrammetric techniques, and to refine this assessment using a multi-image clinometric approach. We show that the pole is located in accentuated topography with elevation differences in the range of no more than 1 km. We conclude that pinpointing the location of the pole from the overlapping images and standard mission data is accurate to within about 100 pixels or 8 km (RMS). ¿ American Geophysical Union 1992