Name details

Walker Peak

Walker Peak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Walker Peak  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 111810

Feature type: Peak

Origin

This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

rising to 1495 m at SW end of Dufek Massif (q.v.), Pensacola Mountains, was photographed from the air by USN in 1964 and surveyed from the ground on USGS Pensacola Mountains Project, 1965-66; named after Paul T. Walker (1934-59), USARP 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 (USGS sheet SU 21-25/9, 1969; APC, 1974, p.6).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
82° 38' 00.0" S
-82.63333°
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Longitude:
53° 13' 00.0" W
-53.21667°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
3-Nov-1971

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