Patroclus Hill

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Patroclus Hill
height 760  m
location Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago
Mountains Achaean Range
Coordinates 64 ° 27 ′ 16 ″  S , 63 ° 34 ′ 4 ″  W Coordinates: 64 ° 27 ′ 16 ″  S , 63 ° 34 ′ 4 ″  W
Patroclus Hill (Antarctic Peninsula)
Patroclus Hill

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 .

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