Walker Peak

Walker Peak
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height	1495 m
location	Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica
Mountains	Dufek Massif , Pensacola Mountains
Coordinates	82 ° 37 '59 " S , 53 ° 12' 58" W Coordinates: 82 ° 37 '59 " S , 53 ° 12' 58" W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Walker Peak is an acute and 1,495 m high mountain in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . It marks the southwest end of the Dufek massif in the Pensacola Mountains .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own surveys and with the help of aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1956 and 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after the American glaciologist Paul Thomas Walker (1934-1959), who was one of those belonged to the crew stationed at Ellsworth Station , which explored the Dufek massif first in December 1957.

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