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Honnywill Peak () is a rock peak, high, immediately southeast of Williams Ridge on the west side of
Stratton Glacier Stratton Glacier () is a glacier 20 nautical miles (37 km) long, flowing north from Pointer Nunatak and then northwest to the north of Mount Weston, in the Shackleton Range. First mapped in 1957 by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedit ...
in the
Shackleton Range The Shackleton Range is a mountain range in Antarctica. Rising at Holmes Summit to , it extends in an east–west direction for about between the Slessor and Recovery glaciers. The range was named after Sir Ernest Shackleton, leader of the Br ...
of Antarctica. It was first mapped in 1957 by the
Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE) of 1955–1958 was a Commonwealth-sponsored expedition that successfully completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole. It was the first expedition to reach the South ...
and was named for
Eleanor Honnywill Eleanor Honnywill ( – 11 April 2003; Biscoe, later Eleanor, Lady Fuchs) was instrumental in supporting the work of British Antarctic Survey (BAS). Career Honnywill won the 1975 Fuchs Medal of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in recogni ...
, Assistant Secretary to the expedition in 1955–59, and later Secretary and Editor.


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