Anderson Heights is a roughly rectangular snow-covered tableland, 7 miles (11 km) long and 6 miles (10 km), with an elevation somewhat over 2400 metres (7,874 ft), located between Mount Bennett

Mount Bennett

Mount Bennett is a prominent mountain about 3 nautical miles east of Mount Boyd, surmounting the west part of Anderson Heights, Queen Maud Mountains. Discovered by the United States Antarctic Service , and surveyed by the U.S. Ross Ice Shelf Traverse Party led by A.P. Crary. Named by Crary for...

 and Mount Butters

Mount Butters

Mount Butters is the snowcapped summit, high, of a buttress-type escarpment at the extreme southeast end of Anderson Heights, between Mincey Glacier on the south and Shackleton Glacier on the east. It was discovered and photographed by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump on the flights of February 16,...

 in the east part of the Bush Mountains

Bush Mountains

The Bush Mountains is a series of rugged elevations at the heads of the Ramsey and Kosco glaciers in Antarctica.The Bush Mountains extend from Mount Weir in the west to Anderson Heights overlooking Shackleton Glacier in the east. They were photographed at a distance by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition...

 of Antarctica. It was discovered and photographed by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump

Operation Highjump

Operation Highjump , officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946-1947, was a United States Navy operation organized by RADM Richard E. Byrd Jr. USN, , Officer in Charge, Task Force 68, and led by RADM Richard H. Cruzen, USN, Commanding Officer, Task Force 68....

 (1946–47) on the flights of February 16, 1947, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...

 for Lieutenant George H. Anderson, U.S. Navy, pilot of Flight 8 of that date from Little America to the South Pole

South Pole

The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface. It is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth and lies on the opposite side of the Earth from the North Pole...

and return.