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Mayer Hills (69°33′S 67°12′W / 69.55°S 67.2°W) is a low, mainly ice-covered hills with steep N.-facing slopes but rather featureless summits, about 900 m, lying south of Forster Ice Piedmont, Antarctic Peninsula, between Prospect Glacier and Mount Leo. First roughly surveyed from the ground by British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE), 1936–37; resurveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), 1958. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (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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