Silverstein Peak is a prominent, peak on the west edge of the ice-covered Vinson Plateau in the

Sentinel Range The Sentinel Range is a major mountain range situated northward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range trends NNW-SSE for about and is 24 to 48 km (15 to 30 mi) wide. Man ...

Ellsworth Mountains The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a long and wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Marie Byrd Land. They are bisected by Minnesota ...

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. It surmounts

Roché Glacier Roché Glacier ( bg, ледник Роше, lednik Roshe, ) is the 5.8 km long and 2 km wide glacier draining the central part of Vinson Plateau in Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. Its head is bounded by Mount Vin ...

to the north and

Zapol Glacier Zapol Glacier () is a steep valley glacier draining the west slope of Vinson Massif south of Silverstein Peak and Príncipe de Asturias Peak, and descending between Tulaczyk Glacier and Donnellan Glacier in the Sentinel Range, Antarctica. The ...

to the southwest. The peak was named by

US-ACAN The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

in 2006 afte
Dr. Samuel C. Silverstein
member of the 1966-67 American Antarctic Mountaineering Expedition that made the first ascent of

Vinson Massif Vinson Massif () is a large mountain massif in Antarctica that is long and wide and lies within the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains. It overlooks the Ronne Ice Shelf near the base of the Antarctic Peninsula. The massif is located ...

and other high mountains in the Sentinel Range.

Location

Silverstein Peak is located at , which is south-southwest of the summit

Mount Vinson Vinson Massif () is a large mountain massif in Antarctica that is long and wide and lies within the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains. It overlooks the Ronne Ice Shelf near the base of the Antarctic Peninsula. The massif is located a ...

, west by south of Hollister Peak, north-northwest of Opalchenie Peak and east of

Príncipe de Asturias Peak Príncipe de Asturias Peak ( bg, връх Принсипе де Астуриас, vrah Prinsipe de Asturias, ; es, Pico del Príncipe de Asturias, ) is the peak rising to 4498 m USGS The United States Geological Survey (USGS), formerly simply known as the Geological Survey, is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, a ...

mapping in 1961, updated in 1988.

Maps

Vinson Massif.
Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988. * D. Gildea and C. Rada. Vinson Massif and the Sentinel Range. Scale 1:50 000 topographic map. Omega Foundation, 2007.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.

References

SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
Ellsworth Mountains Mountains of Ellsworth Land Four-thousanders of Antarctica {{EllsworthLand-geo-stub