Kanak Peak

Kanak Peak
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height	2410 m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Cook Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	79 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 79 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E

The Kanak peak is 2,410 m high, distinctive and ice-free mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Cook Mountains it rises 10 km northwest of Mount Gniewek on the northern flank of the head end of the Carlyon Glacier .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it using its own tellurometer measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1965 after Lieutenant Commander Robert Anthony Kanak (1925–1978), captain of the USS Durant in Station service for flights between Christchurch and McMurdo Sound in Operation Deep Freeze in 1963.

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