Mount Shattuck

Mount Shattuck () 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 ...

, 1,430 m, located at the south end of

Independence Hills The Independence Hills () are a line of rugged hills and peaks, long, with mainly bare rock eastern slopes. They lie southeast of the Marble Hills and form the southern segment of the west wall of Horseshoe Valley, in the Heritage Range of Ant ...

, about 3 miles (4.8 km) northwest of Redpath Peaks, in the

Heritage Range The Heritage Range is a major mountain range, long and wide, situated southward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the southern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range is complex, consisting of scattered ridges and peaks of mod ...

. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for aviation machinist Wayne M. Shattuck of the

U.S. Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage o ...

, who was an air crewman on LC-47 aircraft, who perished in a crash on the Ross Ice Shelf on February 2, 1966. Mountains of Ellsworth Land {{EllsworthLand-geo-stub