Mount Achilles (Palmer Archipelago)

Mount Achilles (Palmer Archipelago)

Mount Achilles (coord|64|29|S|63|35|W|display=inline,title) is a snow-covered, steep-sided mountain, 1,280 m, which rises 4 miles (6 km) southwest of Mount Nestor in the Achaean Range of central Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. Surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1955 and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Achilles, the central figure in Homer's "Iliad".


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