Burlock Peak

Burlock Peak
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height	2070 m
location	Marie Byrd Land , Antarctica
Mountains	Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	86 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ S , 132 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 86 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ S , 132 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Burlock Peak is a 2,070 m high mountain in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . In the Queen Maud Mountains it rises on the east side of the Watson Escarpment from a ridge of Mount Simsarian .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after James U. Burlock (* 1939), construction worker on the Byrd station in Year 1962.

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