The Mayer Crags () form a rugged V-shaped massif in Antarctica. The feature is long, surmounted by several sharp peaks, and located at the west side of the mouth of

Liv Glacier Liv Glacier is a steep valley glacier, long, emerging from the Antarctic Plateau just southeast of Barnum Peak and draining north through the Queen Maud Mountains to enter Ross Ice Shelf between Mayer Crags and Duncan Mountains. It was discovere ...

, where the latter enters the

Ross Ice Shelf The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (, an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France). It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than long, and between hi ...

. It was named by the

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

for Lieutenant Robert V. Mayer, U.S. Navy, a pilot of

Hercules aircraft The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is an American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed Corporation, Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin). Capable of using unprepared runways for takeoffs and landings, the C-130 ...

in four Antarctic seasons, and plane commander for a mid-winter evacuation flight on June 26, 1964. The highest peak of the Mayer Crags is Mount Koob, at . It stands northwest of Mount Ferguson and was named by the

for Derry D. Koob, a United States Antarctic Research Program biologist at

McMurdo Station McMurdo Station is a United States Antarctic research station on the south tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the Unit ...

in the 1964–65 and 1965–66 seasons.

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Cliffs of the Ross Dependency Dufek Coast {{DufekCoast-geo-stub