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 Mincey Glacier () is a glacier, long, draining the southern slopes of the Anderson Heights in the Bush Mountains of Antarctica and flowing southeast to enter Shackleton Glacier at Thanksgiving Point. It was discovered and photographed by U.S. Na ...

on the south and

Shackleton Glacier Shackleton Glacier is a major Antarctica, 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 e ...

on the east. It was discovered and photographed by

U.S. Navy Operation Highjump Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. The opera ...

(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 combi ...

, 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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