Douglas Peaks

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The Douglas peaks are a group of hills at the south-eastern extension of the Heritage Range, the southern half of Ellsworthgebirges in West Antarctica. The Douglas peaks rising to 1,475 meters above sea level and about 100-200 meters above the surrounding ice that covered the landscape. The highest peak is the Gliozzi peak with an altitude of 1,475 m above sea level. NN.

Northeast of Douglas peaks, separated by the glacier Plummer Glacier, are the Enterprise Hills. To the west stretches the ice-filled Horseshoe Valley and east of the summit are the Wilson nunataks and the narrow ice-filled bay Hercules Inlet. A ridge protrudes to the west in the Horseshoe Valley and ends there in Lippert Peak.

A research expedition of the University of Minnesota explored the area in the summers of 1964-65. They named the surveys by Lieutenant Commander John Douglas, a pilot of the United States Navy, who flew to the area to evacuate a member of the expedition for an emergency appendectomy.