Walker Peak
| Walker Peak | |||
| British Antarctic Territory | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Range: | Dufek Massif | ||
| Summit: | 4,905 feet 82°37’59"S, 53°12’58"W | ||
Walker Peak is a is a sharp peak or mountain of 4,905 feet, marking the southwest extremity of amongst the Dufek Massif, in the Pensacola Mountains of Queen Elizabeth Land in the British Antarctic Territory. It stands at the south-west end of the Massif.
The mountain was photographed from the air by the United States Navy in 1964 and surveyed from the ground on the United States Geological Survey Pensacola Mountains Project, 1965-66. It is named after Paul T. Walker (1934-59), the United States Antarctic Research Program glaciologist, 'Ellsworth Station', winter 1957, and a member of the first field party to visit Dufek Massif in December 1957; glaciologist with the Arctic Institute of North America expedition to Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada, in summer 1959, when he was taken by an illness that later proved fatal.
References
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Walker Peak