Achaean Range is a mountain range

Mountain range

A mountain range is a single, large mass consisting of a succession of mountains or narrowly spaced mountain ridges, with or without peaks, closely related in position, direction, formation, and age; a component part of a mountain system or of a mountain chain...

 rising to 1370 metres (4,495 ft) in the central part of Anvers Island

Anvers Island

Anvers Island or Antwerp Island or Antwerpen Island or Isla Amberes is a high, mountainous island long, which is the largest feature in the Palmer Archipelago, lying southwest of Brabant Island at the southwestern end of the group. Anvers Island is located at...

 in the Palmer Archipelago

Palmer Archipelago

Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula....

. It is bounded on the east by Iliad Glacier

Iliad Glacier

Iliad Glacier is a glacier flowing northeast from the central highlands of Anvers Island between the Achaean and Trojan Ranges into Lapeyrere Bay, in the Palmer Archipelago. Surveyed in 1955 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names...

 and Trojan Range

Trojan Range

The Trojan Range is a mountain range rising to , extending northward from Mount Francais along the east side of Iliad Glacier, Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago of the British Antarctic Territory...

 and on the west by Marr Ice Piedmont

Marr Ice Piedmont

Marr Ice Piedmont is a large ice piedmont which covers the northwest half of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. This feature was presumably first seen by a German expedition under Dallmann, 1873–74, and was first roughly surveyed by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, and French...

, and extends northwest from Mount Agamemnon for 10 kilometres (6 mi), curving northeast for a further 19 km (12 mi) to Mount Nestor. Surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1955 and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for the Achaeans, one of the opposing forces of the Trojan War

Trojan War

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta. The war is among the most important events in Greek mythology and was narrated in many works of Greek literature, including the Iliad...

 in Homer

Homer

In the Western classical tradition Homer , is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.When he lived is...

's Iliad

Iliad

The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles...

.

List of mountains

• Mount Achilles (64°29′S 63°35′W) is a snow-covered, steep-sided mountain
  Mountain
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  , 1280 m (4,199 ft), which rises 6 km (4 mi) southwest of Mount Nestor. Surveyed by the FIDS in 1955 and named by the UK-APC for Achilles
  Achilles
  In Greek mythology, Achilles was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.Plato named Achilles the handsomest of the heroes assembled against Troy....
  
  , the central figure in Homer's Iliad.

• Mount Agamemnon (64°38′S 63°31′W) is a snow-covered mountain, 2575 m (8,448 ft), marking the south limit of the Achaean Range. It is part of the Mount Francais
  Mount Francais
  Mount Francais is a mountain which forms the summit of Anvers Island, Antarctica standing southeast of the center of the island and 6 miles north of Borgen Bay. Mount Francais has an elevation of and is part of the Trojan mountain range.-History:...
  
   massif
  Massif
  In geology, a massif is a section of a planet's crust that is demarcated by faults or flexures. In the movement of the crust, a massif tends to retain its internal structure while being displaced as a whole...
  
   but has a separate summit 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of the main peak
  Summit (topography)
  In topography, a summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. Mathematically, a summit is a local maximum in elevation...
  
   of Mount Francais. It was surveyed by the FIDS in 1944, and again in 1955. Named by the UK-APC for Agamemnon
  Agamemnon
  In Greek mythology, Agamemnon was the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra, and the father of Electra and Orestes. Mythical legends make him the king of Mycenae or Argos, thought to be different names for the same area...
  
  , Commander in Chief of the Achaean forces at Troy
  Troy
  Troy was a city, both factual and legendary, located in northwest Anatolia in what is now Turkey, southeast of the Dardanelles and beside Mount Ida...
  
   in Homer's Iliad.

• Mount Nestor (64°25′S 63°28′W) is a mountain, 1250 m (4,101 ft), the northernmost of the Achaean Range. Its western side rises steeply from Marr Ice Piedmont; its eastern side is a jumble of crevasse
  Crevasse
  A crevasse is a deep crack in an ice sheet rhys glacier . Crevasses form as a result of the movement and resulting stress associated with the sheer stress generated when two semi-rigid pieces above a plastic substrate have different rates of movement...
  
  s and jagged rock pinnacles. Surveyed by the FIDS in 1955 and named by the UK-APC for Nestor
  Nestor (mythology)
  In Greek mythology, Nestor of Gerenia was the son of Neleus and Chloris and the King of Pylos. He became king after Heracles killed Neleus and all of Nestor's siblings...
  
  , oldest of the Achaean chieftains fighting at Troy in Homer's Iliad.