Dufek Head is an ice-covered headland

Headland

A headland is a point of land, usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends out into a body of water.Headland can also refer to:*Headlands and bays*headLand, an Australian television series...

 4.4 nmi (8.1 km; 5.1 mi) northeast of Tyree Head

Tyree Head

Tyree Head is a headland 3.2 nautical miles northeast of Sultans Head Rock on the south side of Ross Island. The headland rises to over 400 m and is ice covered except for rock exposed on the lower east side. Named after Adm. David M. Tyree, U.S. Navy , Commander, U.S. Naval Support Force,...

 in south Ross Island

Ross Island

Ross Island is an island formed by four volcanoes in the Ross Sea near the continent of Antarctica, off the coast of Victoria Land in McMurdo Sound.-Geography:...

. The headland rises to 620 metres (2,034.1 ft) at the east side of the terminus of Aurora Glacier

Aurora Glacier

Aurora Glacier is a four-mile-long glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska. It heads east of July Fourth Mountain and trends northwest to an icefield between the heads of Reid and Brady Glaciers in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, 61 miles northwest of Hoonah.The glacier is the namesake for...

. 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...

 (US-ACAN) (2000) in association with Tyree Head, after Rear Admiral George J. Dufek

George J. Dufek

George John Dufek was an American naval officer, naval aviator, and Arctic expert. He served in World War II and the Korean War and in the 1940s and 1950s spent much of his career in the Antarctic, first with Admiral Byrd and later as supervisor of U.S. programs in the South Polar regions...

, U.S. Navy (1903–77), Commander, U.S. Naval Support Force Antarctica (NSFA), 1954-1959. Dufek Coast

Dufek Coast

Dufek Coast is that portion of the coast along the southwest margin of the Ross Ice Shelf between Airdrop Peak on the east side of the Beardmore Glacier and Morris Peak on the east side of Liv Glacier. Named by New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1961 after Rear Admiral George J...

, Dufek Massif

Dufek Massif

Dufek Massif is a range of peaks in the Pensacola Mountains of Antarctica, centered at . It covers and its highest point is England Peak . It is named for Rear Admiral George J. Dufek who participated in the exploration of the Antarctic in the mid-twentieth century. Dufek Coast, Dufek Head, and...

, and Dufek Mountain

Dufek Mountain

Dufek Mountain is a large mountain rising to , standing southwest of Mefjell Mountain in the Sør Rondane Mountains. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers in 1957 from aerial photographs taken by United States Navy during Operation Highjump, 1946–1947. The nmountain was named for RADM George J. Dufek,...

are also named for Dufek.