Schoeck Peak

Schoeck Peak
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height	1810 m
location	Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains	Enterprise Hills , Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates	79 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ S , 82 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 79 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ S , 82 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ W
	Map of the region with Schoeck Peak in the middle at the bottom

Schoeck Peak is a 1,810 m high mountain in the Ellsworth Mountains of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the Enterprise Hills of the Heritage Range, it rises at the head of the Horseshoe Valley . From Schoeck Peak, the Henderson Glacier flows northeast through the Enterprise Hills to the Union Glacier .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1961 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after Peter A. Schoeck, a scientist who in 1957 on the American Little America V Antarctic Station had explored northern lights .

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