Iliad Glacier
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The Iliad Glacier is a glacier on Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago of the British Antarctic Territory.
The glacier flows slowly north-east from the central highlands of Anvers Island, between the Achaean Range and the Trojan Range into Lapeyrère Bay.
The glacier was surveyed in 1955 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Homer's Iliad. It is named in a scheme with the mountains either ide of it: the Achaean Range and the Trojan Range face each other across the glacier like the like-named armies of the Trojan War as the Iliad recounts.
References
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Iliad Glacier
