Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Walker Peak

(Dufek Massif)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 82° 37' 59" S 53° 12' 58" W
rising to 1495 m at SW end of Dufek Massif (q.v.), Pensacola Mountains, was photographed from the air by the United States Navy in 1964 and surveyed from the ground on the United States Geological Survey Pensacola Mountains Project, 1965-66; named after Paul T. Walker (1934-59), the United States Antarctic Research Program glaciologist, 'Ellsworth Station', winter 1957, and a member of the first field party to visit Dufek Massif in December 1957; glaciologist with the Arctic Institute of North America expedition to Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada, in summer 1959, when he was taken by an illness that later proved fatal.