Mixon Rocks is a rock outcrop about 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km) west of Gadarene Ridge

Gadarene Ridge

Gadarene Ridge is a ridge extending southward from Ship Cone in the Allan Hills of Victoria Land. Reconnoitered by the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program Allan Hills Expedition who gave the name because of the swine-backed appearance of the feature in profile....

 in the Allan Hills

Allan Hills

The Allan Hills are group of hills, mainly ice free and about long, lying just north-west of Coombs Hills near the heads of Mawson Glacier and Mackay Glacier in Oates Land and Victoria Land, Antarctica. They were mapped by the New Zealand party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition and...

, Oates Land

Oates Land

Oates Land is a wedge-shaped segment of East Antarctica stretching along and inland from the Oates Coast. Part of the Australian claim to the Antarctic, it extends between 153°45' E and 150° E, forming a wedge between 60° S and the South Pole. It is bounded in the east by the Ross Dependency and in...

. Reconnoitered by the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program (NZARP) Allan Hills Expedition, 1964, who named this feature for Lieutenant William A. Mixon, a U.S. Navy medical officer at McMurdo Station

McMurdo Station

McMurdo Station is a U.S. Antarctic research center located on the southern tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the United States Antarctic Program, a branch of the National...

who treated an injured member of the expedition.