Mayer Crags
| Mayer Crags | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount Koob ( 1601 m ) | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 53 ′ S , 168 ° 45 ′ W | |
 Map of the Dufek coast from 1965, Liv Glacier with the Mayer Crags in the far southeast |
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The Mayer Crags are rugged , V-shaped cliffs on the Dufek coast of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains they extend over a length of 16 km along the western flank of the mouth of the Liv Glacier into the Ross Ice Shelf . The highest point is Mount Koob at 1601 m .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1966 after Lieutenant Robert V. Mayer of the United States Navy , pilot of a Lockheed C-130 in four Antarctic campaigns, who had acted as commander on June 26, 1964 on an evacuation flight.
Web links
- Mayer Crags in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mayer Crags on geographic.org (English)