Hoinkes Peak

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Hoinkes peak is a sharp rocky peaks of the Enterprise Hills in the Heritage Range in West Antarctica. The 1840 m high mountain located in the west of the mountain range, at the head of Henderson Glacier.

The mountain was mapped by United States Geological Survey as part of the acquisition of the Enterprise Hills in the years 1961-66 by site surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names by Herfried C. Hoinkes, who worked as a meteorologist at the U.S. Antarctic Station Little America V in 1957.