Xanthus Spur
| Xanthus Spur | |||
| British Antarctic Territory | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Range: | Trojan Range | ||
| Anvers Island | |||
| 64°33’-0"N, 63°30’0"W | |||
Xanthus Spur is a mainly ice-covered spur extending four miles north-westward from Mount Priam in the Trojan Range of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago of the British Antarctic Territory.
The spur was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1955 and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Xanthus, son of Zeus and the god of one of the two chief rivers of the Trojan plain. It is named in a scheme with the other Trojan mountains, named after heroes on the Trojan side in the Trojan War, just as the mountains of the adjacent Achaean Range are named from warriors of the Greek side.
References
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Xanthus Spur