Mount Agamemnon

Mount Agamemnon
British Antarctic Territory
Range:	Achæan Range
	Anvers Island
Summit:	4,200 feet 64°28’60"S, 63°34’60"W

Mount Agamemnon is a snow-clad mountain of 8,448 feet among the Achaean Range on Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago of the British Antarctic Territory. It marks the south limit of the Achaean Rangem where it approaches as if to merge with the neighbouring Trojan Range and may be considered a part of the Mount Français massif of the latter. Nevertheless, Mount Agamemnon has a separate summit a mile and a half west of the main peak of Mount Français.

The mountains was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1944, and again in 1955.

The United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee named this mountain after Agamemnon, King of Mycenae, one of the leaders of the Achaean (Greek) army in the Trojan War according to Homer's Iliad. It is part of a naming scheme whereby each mountain of the Achaean Range is named after an Achaean hero of the Trojan Wars, just as mountains in the adjacent Trojan Range are named after heroes of Troy, and the glacier keeping these armies apart is the Iliad Glacier.

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Mount Agamemnon