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Shockey Peak
Northern-Sentinel-Map.jpg
Northern Sentinel Range map.
Highest point
Elevation 2,010 metres (6,590 ft)
Geography
Shockey Peak is located in Antarctica
Shockey Peak
Shockey Peak
Location in Antarctica
Location Antarctica
Parent range Sentinel Range

Shockey Peak is a 2,010 m tall peak, rising 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of Allen Peak near the north extremity of the main ridge of the Sentinel Range, Antarctica. It was discovered by Lincoln Ellsworth on his trans-Antarctic flight of November 23, 1935. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Charles C. Shockey of the Branch of Special Maps, U.S. Geological Survey, which prepared the 1962 map of this range.

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