Cape Burks is a prominent rock cape, the northwestern seaward extension of

McDonald Heights The McDonald Heights () are broad, mainly snow-covered heights about long and rising over 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 J ...

, marking the east side of the entrance of

Hull Bay Hull Bay () is an ice-filled bay, about wide, fed by Hull Glacier, which descends into it between Lynch Point and Cape Burks, on the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the United States Antarctic Service, 1939–41. The ...

on the coast of Marie Byrd Land. The cape was sighted and mapped from the USS ''Glacier'', January 31, 1962, and was named for Lieutenant Commander Ernest Burks, U.S. Navy, senior helicopter pilot on the ''Glacier'' and the first person to set foot on the cape.

Russkaya Station The Russkaya Station (russian: Русская) was a former Soviet and Russian Antarctic research station that was located on the Ruppert Coast, in Marie Byrd Land in Western Antarctica. The station was proposed in 1973 and approved in 1978. Con ...

was established on Cape Burks by the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

in 1980.

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* Headlands of Marie Byrd Land {{MarieByrdLand-geo-stub

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