Mount Quackenbush () is a flat-topped
mountain
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in
Antarctica
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, 2,435 m, which forms a projecting angle along the steep cliffs bordering the north side of
Byrd Glacier
The Byrd Glacier is a major glacier in Antarctica, about long and wide, draining an extensive area of the polar plateau and flowing eastward between the Britannia Range and Churchill Mountains to discharge into the Ross Ice Shelf at Barne Inl ...
, just west of
Peckham Glacier. It was 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 ...
(US-ACAN) for Captain
Robert S. Quackenbush, Jr., chief of staff to
Admiral Cruzen (
Central Group
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of
Task Force 68) in
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, led by
Admiral Byrd
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.
Mountains of Oates Land
Britannia Range (Antarctica)
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