 It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers in 1957 from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump 1946-47 and named for Erik Simensen, photographic expert with the Lars Christensen Expedition to this area 1936–37.Simler Snowfield

Simler Snowfield is a snowfield lying northeast of Holtedahl Bay, on Velingrad Peninsula, the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctica.Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956–57, and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS).