Gatlin Peak

Gatlin Peak
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height	1950 m
location	Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula
Mountains	Welch Mountains
Coordinates	70 ° 49 ′ 59 ″ S , 63 ° 16 ′ 21 ″ W Coordinates: 70 ° 49 ′ 59 ″ S , 63 ° 16 ′ 21 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Gatlin Peak is a turn 1950 m high, distinctive, snowy and a bit more remote mountain in Palmer land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 7 km northeast of Steel Peak at the northeast end of the Welch Mountains .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it in 1974. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1976 after Donald H. Gatlin (* 1941) of the Reserve Forces of the United States Navy , navigator of a Lockheed C-130 Hercules during flights to create aerial photographs in Operation Deep Freeze in 1968 and 1969.

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