Simmonds Peak
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Simmonds Peak () is a prominent rock peak, 1,940 m, standing 4 miles (6 km) south of Mount Dort on the east side of Amundsen Glacier, in the Queen Maud Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-64. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Willard I. Simmonds, biologist, McMurdo Station winter party, 1964.
This article incorporates text from Simmonds Peak, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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