Mount Achilles (Palmer Archipelago)
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Mount Achilles () 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.
This article incorporates text from Mount Achilles (Palmer Archipelago), in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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