Simmers Peaks () is a group of three peaks, the highest 840 m, rising above the icecap 13 miles (21 km) southeast of
Cape Close
Cape Close () is a cape on the coast of Enderby Land, west of Cape Batterbee. It was discovered by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition, 1929–31, under Mawson, who named it for Sir Charles Close, President of the ...
and 11 miles (18 km) north of
Mount Codrington
Mount Codrington () is a prominent mountain, high, standing south-southeast of Cape Close, east of Johnston Peak, and south of Simmers Peaks. Mount Codrington forms the northeastern end of the Napier Mountains.
It was charted in 1930 by the ...
. They were discovered by the
British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition
The British Australian (and) New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) was a research expedition into Antarctica between 1929 and 1931, involving two voyages over consecutive Austral summers. It was a British Commonwealth initiative, dr ...
(BANZARE) under
Mawson
Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton, he was a key expedition leader durin ...
in 1930 and were named for
R.G. Simmers, the meteorologist of the expedition.
Mountains of Enderby Land
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