Headland Peak () is a peak rising to on the north side of

Geikie Glacier Geikie Glacier flows northeast to Mercer Bay, at the southwest end of Cumberland West Bay, South Georgia. It was first charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Otto Nordenskiöld, who named it after Sir Archibald Geikie, a n ...

, at the head of Cumberland West Bay, South Georgia. 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 ...

for Robert K. Headland, a British Antarctic Survey biological assistant at

Grytviken Grytviken ( ) is a settlement on South Georgia in the South Atlantic and formerly a whaling station and the largest settlement on the island. It is located at the head of King Edward Cove within the larger Cumberland East Bay, considered the b ...

, 1977–80 and 1981–82. He was curator of the Scott Polar Research Institute from 1987.

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Mountains and hills of South Georgia {{SouthGeorgia-geo-stub