Mount Hawkes

Mount Hawkes

Mount Hawkes (83°55′S 56°5′W / 83.917°S 56.083°W / -83.917; -56.083) is the highest mountain (1,975 m) along the Washington Escarpment, standing at the east side of Jones Valley in the Neptune Range, Pensacola Mountains. Discovered and photographed on January 13, 1956 in the course of the trans-Antarctic nonstop plane flight by personnel of U.S. Navy Operation Deep Freeze I from McMurdo Sound to the Weddell Sea and return. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Commander William M. Hawkes, U.S. Navy, co-pilot of the P2V-2N Neptune aircraft making this flight. Hawkes Heights is also named for CAPT Hawkes, who was assigned to Air Development Squadron Six (VX-6) in 1955-56.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Mount Hawkes" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).