Mount Roper

Mount Roper

Mount Roper (78°7′S 162°45′E / 78.117°S 162.75°E / -78.117; 162.75) is a prominent peak rising to 3,660 m, located 3.2 km south of Mount Hooker in Victoria Land, Antarctica.

The peak was named by the New Zealand Geographic Board in 1994 after Cas Roper (d. 1994), a scientist with the NZ Antarctic Programme who oversaw Scott Base laboratory programs for over twenty years.

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Mount Roper" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).