Patroclus Hill
Patroclus Hill | ||
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height | 760 m | |
location | Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
Mountains | Achaean Range | |
Coordinates | 64 ° 27 ′ 16 ″ S , 63 ° 34 ′ 4 ″ W | |
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The Patroclus Hill is a 760 m high, rounded and snowy hills in the Achaean Range on Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . A low mountain saddle separates it from the northwest side of Mount Achilles .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey surveyed the hill in 1955. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1958 after Patroclus , a figure from the Iliad after Homer .
Web links
- Patroclus Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Patroclus Hill on geographic.org (English)