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 Coordinates: 64 ° 32 ′ 55 ″ S , 63 ° 22 ′ 6 ″ W
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 .

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