Mount Helen
| Mount Helen | |||
| British Antarctic Territory | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Range: | Achæan Range | ||
| Anvers Island | |||
| Summit: | 4,495 feet 64°31’52"S, 63°35’55"W | ||
Mount Helen is a mountain rising to 4,495 feet in the Achæan Range on Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago of the British Antarctic Territory. It stands to the north of the Menelaus Ridge in the same range, and south of Mount Achilles.
Surveys and naming
The mountain was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Arthur Harbour in 1955; in association with other names from Homer's Iliad in this part of the island. Mount Helen is named after Helen, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta, from whom the adjacent Menelaus Ridge is named.
The Iliad Glacier which separates the Achaean Range from the Trojan Range, range from the foot of Mount Helen and so the mountain may almost be said to stand at the division between the Achaeans and the Trojans, as is appropriate for the one whose running away to Troy with Paris caused the war between those two people.
References
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Mount Helen
