Quam Heights [SEP] continent
Quam Heights
Quam Heights () is a mostly snow-covered heights, 15 miles (24 km) long and 4 miles (6 km) wide, rising over 1,000 m and forming the coastline between the Barnett and Dennistoun Glaciers in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica.
Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photography, 1960–63. The site was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Louis O. Quam, chief scientist
qui est vers le Gond ou Pole Austral ainsi appellée à cause que de la Meridionale partie ou Australe procede la Misericorde dicte Chassed" (Chasdia which is toward the austral Hinge or Pole, so called because from the southern or austral part originates Mercy called Chessed). Another legend on the same map over the southern continent reads: " seu Australis terra, quam Vulgus nautarum di fuego vocant alii Papagallorum dicunt" (Chasdia or Terra Australis, which the common sailors call Tierra del Fuego and others say is the Land of the