Mount Butters () is the snowcapped summit, high, of a buttress-type escarpment at the extreme southeast end of

Anderson Heights Anderson Heights () form a roughly rectangular snow-covered tableland, long and wide, with an elevation somewhat over , located between Mount Bennett and Mount Butters in the east part of the Bush Mountains of Antarctica. It was discovered and ...

, between Mincey Glacier on the south and

Shackleton Glacier Shackleton Glacier is a major Antarctic glacier, over long and from 8 to 16 km (5 to 10 mi) wide, descending from the polar plateau from the vicinity of Roberts Massif and flowing north through the Queen Maud Mountains to enter the Ros ...

on the east. It was discovered and photographed by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946–47) on the flights of February 16, 1947, and named by the

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

for Captain Raymond J. Butters,

United States Marine Corps The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through ...

, navigator of Flight 8A.

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* Landforms of the Ross Dependency Escarpments of Antarctica Dufek Coast {{DufekCoast-geo-stub

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