Quam Heights () is a mostly snow-covered heights, long and wide, rising over and forming the coastline between the

Barnett Glacier Barnett Glacier () is a large glacier in the Anare Mountains that flows east along the south side of Tapsell Foreland into Smith Inlet, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Exploration and naming Barnett Glacier was mapped by the United States ...

and

Dennistoun Glacier The Dennistoun Glacier () is a glacier, long, draining the northern slopes of Mount Black Prince, Mount Royalist and Mount Adam in the Admiralty Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It flows northwest between the Lyttelton Range and Dune ...

in northern

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, Antarctica.

Exploration and naming

The Quam Heights were mapped by

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(USGS) from surveys and

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aerial photography, 1960–63. The site was named by the United States

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(US-ACAN) for Louis O. Quam, chief scientist of the

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's Office of Polar Programs, 1967–72.

Location

Quam Heights is in the extreme east of the Anare Mountains, to the south of

and Smith Inlet. It is separated by the Douglas Gap from the

Hedgpeth Heights The Hedgpeth Heights () are mainly snow-covered heights, long and with peaks rising to , located southwest of the Quam Heights in the Anare Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. Exploration and naming The Hedgpeth Heights was mapped by the U ...

to the east. The

flows east to the Pacific Ocean along its southern flank. Features include Mount Neder on the west side, and Cape Oakley and Cape Scott on the coast.

Features

Mount Neder

. Mountain with a small, pointed summit high that surmounts the northwest part of Quam Heights. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-63. Named by US-ACAN for Irving R. Neder, United States ArmyRP geologist in the Ohio Range and Wisconsin Range area, 1965-66, and McMurdo Sound area, 1966-67.

Cape Oakeley

. Bold headland on the northeast side of Quam Heights. It forms the south side of the entrance of Smith Inlet. Discovered in 1841 by Captain James Ross, RN, who named it for Henry Oakeley, mate on the Erebus.

Cape Scott

. A cape at the west side of the terminus of Dennistoun Glacier. Discovered by Captain James Ross, 1841, who named it for Peter A. Scott, Mate on the Terror.

References

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