McDonald Heights (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
McDonald Heights (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Heights (2b)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Broad, mainly snow-covered heights about 35 mi long and rising over 1,000 m between Cape Burks and Morris Head on the coast of Marie Byrd Land. The heights are bounded southward by the Hull, Kirkpatrick and Johnson Glaciers. The feature was photographed from aircraft of the USAS, 1939-41. It was observed and partially mapped from the USS Glacier during Feb. 1962, and was mapped in detail by USGS in 1965. Named by US-ACAN after Capt. Edwin A. McDonald, USN, Deputy Commander of the U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica, in 1962, and Commander of the Task Unit that explored this coast in the Glacier in Feb. 1962.
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