
Cordiner Peaks
(Dufek Massif)
British Antarctic Territory
Location: 82° 48' 15" S 53° 31' 3" W
S of Dufek Massif, Pensacola Mountains, rising to 1255m and including Rosser Ridge, Sumrall Peak and Jackson Peak, were seen from the air on a flight by a United States Navy P2V-2N Neptune aircraft from McMurdo Sound to Weddell Sea and back, 13 January 1956; named after Capt. Douglas L. Cordiner, the United States Navy, observer on the flight, in association with the names of other crew members in this area. The peaks were photographed from the air by the United States Navy in 1964 and surveyed from the ground on US Pensacola Mountains Project, 1965-66.