Shockey Peak
| Shockey Peak | ||
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| height | 2010 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ S , 86 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Shockey Peak is a 2010 m high mountain peak in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises 3 km southeast of Allen Peak near the northern edge of the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains .
The American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth discovered him during his transantarctic flight on November 23, 1935. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1961 after the American cartographer Charles C. Shockey of the United States Geological Survey , who created a map of this area in 1962 .
Web links
- Shockey peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Shockey Peak on geographic.org (English)