Agamemnon, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Agamemnon (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
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rising to c. 2570m at S end of Ach'an Range, Anvers Island, and forming part of the Mount FrancYais massif, was surveyed from the E by FIDS from Port Lockroy in 1944; resurveyed, photographed and climbed by FIDS from Arthur Harbour in December 1955; in association with other names from Homer's Iliad in this range, named after Agamemnon (fl. c. 1200 BC), King of Mycenae, overlord of all Ach'a, and Commander-in-Chief of the Ach'an forces at Troy (APC, 1958, p.4; BA chart 3566, 16.ix.1959).
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