Mayer Hills 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

Forster Ice Piedmont

The Forster Ice Piedmont is an ice piedmont lying landward of the Wordie Ice Shelf, along the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.The piedmont is formed by the confluence of Airy, Seller, Fleming and Prospect Glaciers and is about 25 miles long from north to south and 12 miles wide...

, Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....

, between Prospect Glacier

Prospect Glacier

Prospect Glacier is a glacier between Kinnear Mountains and Mayer Hills, flowing north into Forster Ice Piedmont on the west coast of Antarctic Peninsula. First roughly surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition under Rymill...

 and Mount Leo

Mount Leo

Mount Leo is an isolated mountain at the southeast margin of Forster Ice Piedmont on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula. The mountain has steep rock cliffs on its south side. First roughly surveyed by British Graham Land Expedition . 1936-37...

. First roughly surveyed from the ground by British Graham Land Expedition

British Graham Land Expedition

A British expedition to Graham Land led by John Lachlan Cope took place between 1920 and 1922. The British Graham Land Expedition was a geophysical and exploration expedition to Graham Land in Antarctica between 1934 to 1937. Under the leadership of John Riddoch Rymill, the expedition spent two...

 (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

Johann Tobias Mayer

Johann Tobias Mayer was a German physicist. He was mainly well known for his mathematics and natural science textbooks. Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre zum Behuf der Vorlesungen über die Experimental-Physik, an 1801 physics text, was the most influential of its time in the German-speaking countries...

 (1723–1762), German mathematician who constructed a series of lunar tables for determining longitude, published by the British Admiralty in 1775.