Mount Priam
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| Mount Priam | |||
| British Antarctic Territory | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Range: | Trojan Range | ||
| Anvers Island | |||
| Summit: | 6,500 feet 64°34’0"S, 63°24’-0"W | ||
Mount Priam is an ice-clad mountain of 6,500 feet which forms the central mass of the Trojan Range of Anvers Island within the Palmer Archipelago of the British Antarctic Territory.
Distinct in its outline, Mount Priam is a flat-topped, snow-bound mountain standing four miles north of Mount Français, the range's highest peak.
The mountain was surveyed in 1955 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Priam, King of Troy in Homer's Iliad. It is named in a scheme with the other mountains of the Trojan Range after heroes of Troy in the Trojan War as recounted by Homer (as the mountains of the adjacent Achaean Range are named after the Greek heroes of the war).
References
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Mount Priam