Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Achæan Range (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Achæan Range (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Range
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
extending 25km SW from Lapeyrère Bay, Anvers Island, rising to 2570m at Mount Agamemnon and including also, from N to S, Mount Nestor, Mount Achilles and Mount Helen, was surveyed by FIDS from Arthur Harbour in 1955; photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57, and so named in association with Trojan Range (q.v.) and other names from Homer's Iliad in this area (APC, 1958, p.4; BA chart 3566, 16.x.1959). Features in this range are named after individual Achæans.
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