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)
SCAR Gazetteer Information: Each place can have one or more entries in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer, dependant on its origin. By viewing an individual entry, you may see multiple references to the same place. SCAR uses a more general feature type coding, so each place will, in general, have multiple feature types.
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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Mayer Hills (GBR) | 69° 35' 00.0" S | 67° 06' 00.0" W | Hill |
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Name ID: 110054
Place ID: 9196
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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| Mayer Hills (USA) | 69° 33' 00.0" S | 67° 12' 00.0" W | Hill |
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Name ID: 128588
Place ID: 9196
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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