Simmers Peaks
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| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 6 ′ S , 52 ° 48 ′ E | |
The Simmers Peaks are three mountains up to 840 m high in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . They rise from the Antarctic Ice Sheet 21 km southeast of Cape Close and 18 km north of Mount Codrington .
Participants of the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered them in 1930. Mawson named them after Ritchie Gibson Simmers (1905-1984), meteorologist on this research trip .
Web links
- Simmers peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Simmers Peaks on geographic.org (English)