Mount Achilles
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| Mount Achilles | |||
| British Antarctic Territory | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Range: | Achæan Range | ||
| Anvers Island | |||
| Summit: | 4,200 feet 64°28’60"S, 63°34’60"W | ||
Mount Achilles is a steep-sided mountain of 4,200 feet among the Achaean Range on Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago of the British Antarctic Territory.
The mountain which rises four miles south-west of Mount Nestor. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1955.
The United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee named this mountain after Achilles, the central figure in 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 according to the Iliad, 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 Achilles