Hochstetter Peak is the partly ice-free bluff rising to over 1000 m in the southeast foothills of Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...

 in Graham Land

Graham Land

Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

, Antarctica. It is surmounting Cugnot Ice Piedmont

Cugnot Ice Piedmont

Cugnot Ice Piedmont is an ice piedmont in Trinity Peninsula, about 15 nautical miles long and between 3 and 6 nautical miles wide, extending from Russell East Glacier to Eyrie Bay and bounded on the landward side by Louis Philippe Plateau. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands...

 to the east and south.

The peak is named after the German

Germans

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-Austrian

Austrians

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 geologist

Geologist

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 Ferdinand von Hochstetter

Ferdinand von Hochstetter

Christian Gottlieb Ferdinand Ritter von Hochstetter was a German geologist.He was born at Esslingen, Württemberg, the son of Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter , a clergyman and professor at Bonn, who was also a botanist and mineralogist...

 (1829-1884) who worked in Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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, other Europe

Europe

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an countries and New Zealand

New Zealand

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.

Location

Hochstetter Peak is located at 63°36′52"S 58°18′12"W, which is 6.83 km west-southwest of Kukuryak Bluff

Kukuryak Bluff

Kukuryak Bluff is the partly ice-free bluff rising to over 700 m at the end of a ridge descending eastwards from Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica...

, 10.82 km northwest of Levassor Nunatak

Levassor Nunatak

Levassor Nunatak is a conspicuous horseshoe-shaped nunatak 1 nautical mile inland in the middle of Cugnot Ice Piedmont, Trinity Peninsula. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Emile Levassor , French engineer,...

 and 2.69 km north by east of Smin Peak

Smin Peak

Smin Peak is the partly ice-free peak rising to 850 m in the southeast foothills of Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica...

. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.