Mayer Hills
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 32 ′ S , 67 ° 6 ′ W | |
The Mayer Hills are mostly ice-covered hills on the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . With heights of a maximum of around 900 m , steep slopes on the northern flank and structureless peaks, they rise south of the Forster-Piedmont glacier between the Prospect glacier and Mount Leo .
The first rough mapping took place as part of the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill and again in 1958 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1962 after the German physicist Johann Tobias Mayer (1723–1762), who designed a series of lunar tables for determining geographic longitude , which were published in 1775 by the British Admiralty .
Web links
- Mayer Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mayer Hills on geographic.org (English)