Simmonds Peak


Simmonds Peak is a tall rock peak standing 4 miles south of Mount Dort on the east side of Amundsen Glacier in the Queen Maud Mountains. It was mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–64. It was named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Willard I. Simmonds, biologist, McMurdo Station winter party, 1964.