Mount Butters
| Mount Butters | ||
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| height | 2440 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Anderson Heights in the Bush Mountains of the Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ S , 177 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Butters is a 2440 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises as a snow-covered mountain from a pillar-like step at the extreme southeast end of Anderson Heights between the Mincey Glacier in the south and the Shackleton Glacier in the east.
He was discovered and photographed during an overflight on February 16, 1947 as part of the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1962 after Captain Raymond J. Butters (1921-1989) of the United States Marine Corps , one of the pilots of the flight.
Web links
- Mount Butters in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Butters on geographic.org (English)