Mount Roper

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Mount Roper (78°7′S, 162°45′E) 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.

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This article incorporates text from Mount Roper, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.