Butchers Spur is a high ice-covered spur which descends southwestward from Mount Don Pedro Christophersen

Mount Don Pedro Christophersen

Mount Don Pedro Christophersen is a massive, largely ice-covered, gabled mountain , surmounting the divide between the heads of Axel Heiberg and Cooper Glaciers, in the Queen Maud Mountains. Discovered in 1911 by Roald Amundsen, who named it for one of the expedition's chief supporters who lived...

 to the polar plateau. This feature on the south margin of the Queen Maud Mountains

Queen Maud Mountains

The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the polar plateau in Antarctica...

 is the location of Roald Amundsen's

Roald Amundsen

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the first Antarctic expedition to reach the South Pole between 1910 and 1912 and he was the first person to reach both the North and South Poles. He is also known as the first to traverse the Northwest Passage....

 "Butcher Shop." It was here in November 1911 that his party slaughtered their excess sledge dogs, consuming portions themselves and permitting the remaining sledge dogs a feast, prior to making the final dash 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...

, which was reached on December 14.