mcdonald, heights, broad, mainly, snow, covered, heights, about, nautical, miles, long, rising, over, metres, between, cape, burks, morris, head, coast, marie, byrd, land, antarctica, heights, bounded, southward, hull, glacier, kirkpatrick, glacier, johnson, g. The McDonald Heights 74 55 S 136 0 W 74 917 S 136 000 W 74 917 136 000 are broad mainly snow covered heights about 35 nautical miles 65 km long and rising over 1 000 metres 3 300 ft between Cape Burks and Morris Head on the coast of Marie Byrd Land Antarctica The heights are bounded southward by Hull Glacier Kirkpatrick Glacier and Johnson Glacier The feature was photographed from aircraft of the United States Antarctic Service 1939 1941 was observed and partially mapped from USS Glacier during February 1962 and was mapped in detail by the United States Geological Survey in 1965 The heights were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Captain Edwin A McDonald U S Navy Deputy Commander of the U S Naval Support Force Antarctica in 1962 and Commander of the Task Unit that explored this coast aboard Glacier in February 1962 1 See also editMount Rubin de la Borbolla Strawn Pass Zilch CliffsReferences edit McDonald Heights Geographic Names Information System United States Geological Survey United States Department of the Interior Retrieved 2013 09 05 nbsp This article incorporates public domain material from McDonald Heights Geographic Names Information System United States Geological Survey nbsp This Marie Byrd Land location article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title McDonald Heights amp oldid 1093302881, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,