Mount Hector (Antarctica)
- Mount Hector (Antarctica)
Mount Hector (coord|64|36|S|63|25|W|) is a snow-covered mountain, 2,225 metres, between Mount Francais and Mount Priam in the south part of the Trojan Range, Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago.
Surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1955. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Hector, son of Priam and Commander in Chief of the Trojan and allied armies against the Achaeans in Homer's Iliad.
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