Burney Peak () is a

peak Peak or The Peak may refer to: Basic meanings Geology * Mountain peak ** Pyramidal peak, a mountaintop that has been sculpted by erosion to form a point Mathematics * Peak hour or rush hour, in traffic congestion * Peak (geometry), an (''n''-3)-di ...

rising west of

Duthoit Point Duthoit Point () is a point which forms the eastern tip of Nelson Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The point appears on charts dating back to 1822. It was recharted by Discovery Investigations, 1934–35, and named after Arthur Duthoit, a d ...

in the eastern part of Nelson Island, in the

South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 195 ...

. It was named by the

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...

in 1961 for Captain Burney, Master of the British sealing vessel ''Nelson'', probably from London, who visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820–23.

References

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
* Mountains of the South Shetland Islands {{NelsonIsland-geo-stub