Mount Nestor
| Mount Nestor | |||
| British Antarctic Territory | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Range: | Achæan Range | ||
| Anvers Island | |||
| Summit: | 4,101 feet 64°25’0"S, 63°28’0"W | ||
Mount Nestor is the northernmost mountain of the Achaean Range on Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago of the British Antarctic Territory. It rises to a summit at 4,101 feet, and stands four miles north-east of Mount Achilles.
The western side of the mountain rises steeply from Marr Ice Piedmont, while its eastern side is a jumble of crevasses and jagged rock pinnacles.
The mountain was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1955. The United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee named this mountain after Nestor, the eldest of the Greek chieftains who led their armies 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 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 Nestor