Mayer Hills (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mayer Hills (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Hill
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:
rising to c. 900m E of Prospect Glacier, Fallières Coast, were roughly surveyed by BGLE, 1936-37 (Stephenson, 1940, map facing p.232); resurveyed by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in November 1958; in association with the names of pioneers of navigation grouped in this area, named after Tobias Mayer (1723-62), German mathematician who constructed a series of lunar tables for determining longitude, published by the British Admiralty in 1755 (APC, 1962, p.21; DOS 610 sheet W 69 66, 1963).
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