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

Cape Burks Cape Burks is a prominent rock cape, the northwestern seaward extension of McDonald Heights, marking the east side of the entrance of Hull Bay on the coast of Marie Byrd Land. The cape was sighted and mapped from the USS ''Glacier'', January 3 ...

and Morris Head on the coast of

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, Antarctica. The heights are bounded southward by

Hull Glacier Hull Glacier () is a glacier, about long, flowing northwest between Mount Giles and Mount Gray into Hull Bay, in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the United States Antarctic Service (1939–41) and named for U.S. Secretary of ...

, Kirkpatrick Glacier and Johnson Glacier. The feature was photographed from aircraft of the

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, 1939–1941, was observed and partially mapped from during February 1962, and was mapped in detail by the

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in 1965. The heights were named by the

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after Captain

Edwin A. McDonald The name Edwin means "rich friend". It comes from the Old English elements "ead" (rich, blessed) and "ƿine" (friend). The original Anglo-Saxon form is Eadƿine, which is also found for Anglo-Saxon figures. People * Edwin of Northumbria (die ...

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, Deputy Commander of the

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, in 1962, and Commander of the Task Unit that explored this coast aboard ''Glacier'' in February 1962.

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Mountains of Marie Byrd Land {{MarieByrdLand-geo-stub

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