Walker Mountains () is a range of peaks and

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s which are fairly well separated but trend east–west to form the axis, or spine, of

Thurston Island Thurston Island is an ice-covered, glacially dissected island, long, wide and in area, lying a short way off the northwest end of Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. It is the third-largest island of Antarctica, after Alexander Island and Berkner Isl ...

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. They were discovered by Rear Admiral

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and members of the

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in a flight from the ship ''Bear'' on February 27, 1940. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lt. William M. Walker, captain of the

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ship ''Island'' on March 23, 1839.

Peaks

* Mount Borgeson * Mount Bramhall *

Mount Caldwell Mount Caldwell is a peak of the Walker Mountains, located southeast of Mount Lopez, near the western end of Thurston Island, Antarctica. It was delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in December 1946 and named by t ...

* Dickens Peak * Mount Hawthorne * Mount Kazukaitis * Landfall Peak * Mount Leech * Litz Bluff * Mount Lopez * Lowe Nunataks * Mount Noxon *

Parker Peak Parker Peak () is a peak of the Walker Mountains rising at the base of Evans Peninsula on Thurston Island. It was delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6 in January 1960. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarct ...

* Mount Simpson * Smith Peak (Antarctica) * Zuhn Bluff

Maps

Thurston Island – Jones Mountains.
1:500000 Antarctica Sketch Map. US Geological Survey, 1967.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016. Mountain ranges of Ellsworth Land Thurston Island {{ThurstonIsland-geo-stub