Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Napier Mountains (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Napier Mountains (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A group of peaks extending south-eastfrom Mount Codrington in Enderby Land, the highest being about 2300 m. Discovered in January, 1930, by BANZARE (1929-31) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after the Hon. Sir John Mellis Napier, a Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia, 1924-42, Chief Justice of South Australia, 1942-67. First visited by an ANARE party in 1960.
Hon. Sir John Mellis Napier, Chief Justice of South Australia, 1942-67
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