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)
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 (2b)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Low, mainly ice-covered hills with steep N.-facing slopes but rather featureless summits, about 900 m, lying S of Forster Ice Piedmont, Antarctic Peninsula, between Prospect Glacier and Mount Leo. First roughly surveyed from the ground by BGLE, 1936-37; resurveyed by FIDS, 1958. Named by UK-APC after Johann Tobias Mayer (1723-1762), German mathematician who constructed a series of lunar tables for determining longitude, published by the British Admiralty in 1775.
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