Mount Priam
Mount Priam | ||
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height | 1980 m | |
location | Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
Mountains | Trojan Range | |
Coordinates | 64 ° 32 ′ 55 ″ S , 63 ° 22 ′ 6 ″ W | |
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Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) |
Mount Priam is a 1980 m high, snow-covered mountain with a flattened peak on Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the central massif of the Trojan Range and rises 6 km north of Mount Français .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey surveyed the mountain in 1955. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1957 after Priam , a figure from the Iliad by the ancient Greek poet and author Homer .
Web links
- Mount Priam in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Priam on geographic.org (English)