Werner Peak

Werner Peak
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height	1550 m
location	Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula
Coordinates	68 ° 40 ′ 30 ″ S , 65 ° 9 ′ 59 ″ W Coordinates: 68 ° 40 ′ 30 ″ S , 65 ° 9 ′ 59 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Werner Peak is a 1,550 m high mountain in the northeast of Palmer Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the highest and most distinctive peak on the southeast side of the Mercator Piedmont Glacier and rises immediately to the east of the northern end of the Norwood Scarp level . A special feature of this mountain is a steep mountain ridge on its northern flank.

Scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) photographed him from the air on September 28, 1940. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out surveys in 1958. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1962 after the German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Werner (1468–1528), who in 1514 was probably the first to propose the distance from stars to the moon to solve the longitude problem in navigation .

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