Mount McDonald is a peak

Summit (topography)

In topography, a summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. Mathematically, a summit is a local maximum in elevation...

 (2,470 m) on the north side of Trafalgar Glacier

Trafalgar Glacier

Trafalgar Glacier is a tributary glacier about 30 nautical miles long, flowing east in the Victory Mountains to join Tucker Glacier below Bypass Hill, in Victoria Land. Named by New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition , 1957–58, in association with the Victory Mountains and after the...

, 4 nautical miles (7 km) northwest of Mount Burton

Mount Burton

Mount Burton is a graywacke peak, high, standing at the west side of the mouth of Osuga Glacier in the Barker Range, Victory Mountains, Victoria Land. It was named by the New Zealand Federated Mountain Clubs Antarctic Expedition , 1962–63, after William Burton, crew member on the Terra Nova during...

, in the Victory Mountains

Victory Mountains

The Victory Mountains is a major group of mountains in Victoria Land, Antarctica, about long and wide, which is bounded primarily by Mariner and Tucker glaciers and the Ross Sea...

, 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...

. Named by NZFMCAE, 1962–63, for William McDonald, crew member on the Terra Nova

Terra Nova (ship)

The Terra Nova was built in 1884 for the Dundee whaling and sealing fleet. She worked for 10 years in the annual seal fishery in the Labrador Sea, proving her worth for many years before she was called upon for expedition work.Terra Nova was ideally suited to the polar regions...

 during the British Antarctic Expedition

Terra Nova Expedition

The Terra Nova Expedition , officially the British Antarctic Expedition 1910, was led by Robert Falcon Scott with the objective of being the first to reach the geographical South Pole. Scott and four companions attained the pole on 17 January 1912, to find that a Norwegian team led by Roald...

, 1910-13. McDonald, who lives in New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

, was a guest of the U.S. Navy during the 1962-63 Antarctic season when he visited the continent again with two others of Scott's veterans.