Menelaus Ridge
| Menelaus Ridge | ||
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| location | Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| part of | Achaean Range | |
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 36 ′ S , 63 ° 37 ′ W | |
Menelaus Ridge is a 1370 m high and snowy mountain ridge with four peaks on the Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . As part of the Achaean Range in the center of the island, it looms between Mount Agamemnon and Mount Helen .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey surveyed the mountain in 1955. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1957 after Menelaus , King of Sparta in the Iliad by the ancient Greek poet and author Homer .
Web links
- Menelaus Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Menelaus Ridge on geographic.org (English)