Napier Ice Rise is an ice rise in the southwest portion of Wordie Ice Shelf

Wordie Ice Shelf

The Wordie Ice Shelf was a confluent glacier projecting as an ice shelf into the SE part of Marguerite Bay between Cape Berteaux and Mount Edgell, along the western coast of Antarctic Peninsula....

, western 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....

, 12 nautical miles (22 km) northwest of Mount Balfour

Mount Balfour

Mount Balfour was named by James Hector in 1859 after Professor John Hutton Balfour. It is located on the Continental Divide, part of the border between British Columbia and Alberta, in the Waputik Range in the Park Ranges of the Canadian Rockies.-See also:...

. Surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in November 1958. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after John Napier

John Napier

John Napier of Merchiston – also signed as Neper, Nepair – named Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish mathematician, physicist, astronomer & astrologer, and also the 8th Laird of Merchistoun. He was the son of Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston. John Napier is most renowned as the discoverer...

(1550–1617), Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms and published his first tables in 1614.