The Desko Mountains are a group of mountains on Rothschild Island

Rothschild Island

Rothschild Island is an island long, mainly ice covered but surmounted by prominent peaks of Desko Mountains, west of the north part of Alexander Island in the north entrance to Wilkins Sound....

. The mountains included are Bates Peak, Enigma Peak, Goward Peak, Schenk Peak, Morrill Peak, Thuma Peak and Overton Peak, with elevations up to 1000 meters or 3280 feet
at Enigma Peak. The range spans 20 nautical miles (37 kilometers) from Bates Peak to Overton Peak.The range was photographed from the air by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump and Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition

Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition

The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition was an expedition from 1947-1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.-Background:...

 (RARE) in 1947 and mapped from these air photographs by D. Searle of Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1960.The range is further defined in U.S. Navy air photographs, 1966, and Landsat imagery, 1975. Named by 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...

 (US-ACAN) for Commander Daniel A. Desko, U.S. Navy, Commanding Officer

Commanding officer

The commanding officer is the officer in command of a military unit. Typically, the commanding officer has ultimate authority over the unit, and is usually given wide latitude to run the unit as he sees fit, within the bounds of military law...

, Squadron VXE-6

VXE-6

VXE-6, Antarctic Development Squadron 6 , commonly referred to by its nickname, The Puckered Penguins was a United States Navy Air Test and Evaluation Squadron based at McMurdo Station, Antarctica...

, Operation Deep Freeze

Operation Deep Freeze

Operation Deep Freeze is the codename for a series of United States missions to Antarctica, beginning with "Operation Deep Freeze I" in 1955–56, followed by "Operation Deep Freeze II", "Operation Deep Freeze III", and so on...

, 1977; LC-130 aircraft commander, 1976.