Mount Helen (Antarctica)
| Mount Helen | ||
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| height | 1370 m | |
| location | Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Mountains | Achaean Range | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 31 '52 " S , 63 ° 35' 55" W | |
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Mount Helen is a 1370 m high and snow-covered mountain with steep, non-iced flanks on the east side on the Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 3 km southwest of Mount Achilles in the center of the island.
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out measurements of the mountain in 1955. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1957 after Helena , mistress of Paris in Homer's Iliad .
Web links
- Mount Helen in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Helen on geographic.org (English)