The Beacon Heights are a small cluster of peaks between Beacon Valley

Beacon Valley

Beacon Valley is an ice-free valley between Pyramid Mountain and Beacon Heights, in Victoria Land. It was mapped by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, and named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition after Beacon Heights....

 and Arena Valley

Arena Valley

Arena Valley is an ice-free valley, between East Beacon and New Mountain, which opens to the south side of Taylor Glacier in Victoria Land. It was given this descriptive name by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition , 1958–59....

 in Quartermain Mountains

Quartermain Mountains

Quartermain Mountains is a group of exposed mountains, about 20 miles long, typical of ice-free features of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land, located south of Taylor Glacier and bounded by Finger Mountain, Mount Handsley, Mount Feather and Tabular Mountain; also including Knobhead, Terra...

, Victoria Land

Victoria Land

Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...

, rising to 2345 metre in West Beacon

West Beacon

West Beacon is the prominent western peak, rising to 2,345 m in Beacon Heights, in the Quartermain Mountains, Victoria Land. The name "Beacon Height West" was first used by the Discovery expedition . The name was shortened by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition , 1958-59....

, and also including East Beacon

East Beacon

East Beacon is the prominent eastern peak, rising to 2,265 m in Beacon Heights, in the Quartermain Mountains, Victoria Land. Named East Beacon by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition , 1958-59....

 and South Beacon

South Beacon

South Beacon is the summit of a bold, flat-topped ridge rising to 2,210 m in the south part of Beacon Heights, in the Quartermain Mountains, Victoria Land. A ridge system connects South Beacon with West Beacon, 1.5 nautical miles north, and East Beacon, 1.5 nautical miles northeast...

. They were named by Hartley Ferrar, geologist with the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04). According to the USGS GNIS gazeteer, the heights were named after the beacon sandstone

Beacon sandstone

The Beacon sandstone is a geological formation exposed in Antarctica and deposited from the Devonian to the Triassic . The sandstone was originally described as a formation, and upgraded to group and supergroup as time passed. It contains a sandy member known as the Beacon heights...

which caps them, though another source indicates that the type of rock was named after these hills.