Mayer Hills

The Mayer Hills are low, mainly ice-covered hills with steep north-facing slopes but rather featureless summits, to about, lying south of Forster [Ice Piedmont], on the Antarctic Peninsula, between Prospect Glacier and Mount Leo.They were first roughly surveyed from the ground by the British [Graham Land Expedition], 1936–37. The hills were resurveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1958, and were named by the UK Antarctic [Place-Names Committee] after Johann Tobias Mayer, a German mathematician who constructed a series of lunar tables for determining longitude, published by the British Admiralty in 1775.