Mount Achilles (Admiralty Mountains)
| Mount Achilles | ||
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| height | 2880 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Admiralty Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ S , 168 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Achilles is a distinctive pyramid-shaped and 2880 m high and snowy mountains , in the Admiralty Mountains in the East Antarctic Victoria Land on the watershed between the Fitch Glacier and the Man-o-War glacier rises.
Participants in the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1957-1958) named him after the New Zealand warship HMNZS Achilles .
Web links
- Mount Achilles in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Achilles on geographic.org (English)