South Beacon


South Beacon is the summit of a bold, flat-topped ridge rising to 2,210 m in the south part of Beacon Heights, in the Quartermain Mountains, Victoria Land. A ridge system connects South Beacon with West Beacon, 1.5 nautical miles north, and East Beacon, 1.5 nautical miles northeast. So named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee following geological work here by C.T. McElroy, G. Rose, and K.J. Whitby in 1980–81.