Mount Counts is a sharply pointed peak on the east side of Marsh Glacier

Marsh Glacier

The Marsh Glacier is a glacier about 110 km long, flowing north from the Antarctic polar plateau between the Miller Range and Queen Elizabeth Range into Nimrod Glacier. Seen by a New Zealand party of the CTAE and named for G.W. Marsh, a member of the party....

 marking the termination of the spur running west from Mount Rabot. It was named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition

New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition

The New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition describes a series of scientific explorations of the continent Antarctica. The expeditions were notably active in 1957-58 and again in 1958-59. The 1957-58 expedition went to the Ross Dependency and named the Borchgrevink Glacier...

 (1961–62) for Lieutenant Commander William D. Counts, U.S. Navy, a pilot on reconnaissance flights who was killed in a Neptune plane crash at Wilkes Station

Wilkes Station

Wilkes Station was an Antarctic research station established 29 January 1957 by the United States as one of seven U.S. stations established for the International Geophysical Year program in Antarctica...

 in November 1961.

Counts Icefall

Counts Icefall

Counts Icefall is a steep, heavily-crevassed icefall at the juncture of the Ford Massif and the western end of the Bermel Escarpment, in the Thiel Mountains. It was surveyed by the United States Geological Survey Thiel Mountains party, 1960–61, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic...

 is also named for William Counts, who was assigned to Air Development Squadron Six (VX-6

VX-6

Air Development Squadron Six was a United States Navy Air Development Squadron based at McMurdo Station, Antarctica...

) at the time of the crash.