Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Anderson Hills

(Patuxent Range)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 84° 30' S 64° W
rising to 1210m at O'Connell Nunatak, N Patuxent Range (q.v.), Pensacola Mountains. Following air reconnaissance by the United States Navy from Ellsworth Station, 1957-58, the name Anderson Mountains was applied to a feature shown between 83° and 84°S, and 56° and 64°W, after Robert Bernard Anderson (b.1910), US Deputy Secretary of Defence, 1954-55 (later Secretary of the Treasury), who was directly responsible for US operations in Antarctica in the International Geophysical Year (1957-8). Following survey by the United States Geological Survey, 1961-62, and air photography by the United States Navy in 1864, the feature was repositioned and named Anderson Hills.