- Shockey Peak
Shockey Peak (coord|77|36|S|86|47|W|) is a
peak , 2,010 m, rising 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast ofAllen Peak near the north extremity of the main ridge of theSentinel Range . Discovered byLincoln Ellsworth on his trans-Antarctic flight ofNovember 23 ,1935 . Named by theAdvisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) forCharles C. Shockey of the Branch ofSpecial Maps ,U.S. Geological Survey , which prepared the 1962 map of this range.
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