Walton Peak
| Walton Peak | ||
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| height | 825 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 8 ′ 58 " S , 66 ° 48 ′ 6" W | |
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The Walton Peak is a 825 m high and sharp mountain at the Fallières coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 3 km north of Mount Rhamnus and is part of an irregularly shaped mountain ridge that separates the Northeast Glacier from the Neny Fjord .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill in 1936 made the first measurements of the mountain . Further measurements are carried out in 1946 and 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Namesake is the engineer Eric William Kevin Walton (1918-2009), who worked for the FIDS in 1946 and 1947 on Stonington Island and in 1946 rescued the geodesist John Eliot Tonkin (1921-1996) from a crevasse in the Northeast Glacier .
Web links
- Walton Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Walton Peak on geographic.org (English)