Robert G. Dovers was an Australian explorer and cartographer, born in 1922. He was known to be in the ANARE (

Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions The Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE ) is the historical name for the Australia: Antarctic Program#Australian Antarctic program, Australian Antarctic Program (AAP) administered for Australia by the Australian Antarctic D ...

) party in the 1950s. He mapped

Nelson Rock Nelson Rock is an uninhabited solitary island, being essentially a dark rock which is partly ice-covered and lies north of Williams Rocks, off the coast of Mac Robertson Land in Holme Bay. The Rock was mapped by Robert G. Dovers of the Austra ...

in 1954. Dovers led an ANARE expedition and discovered Dovers Peak, which was named after him.

Dovers Moraine Dovers Moraine () is a band of coarse glacial moraine, extending in a north–south direction for 1.5 nautical miles (3 km), deposited at the east end of the main mass of Heard Island immediately east of Stephenson Glacier. It was surveyed in ...

and Mt. Dovers also bear his name.

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