Kemp Peak is a prominent peak

Summit (topography)

In topography, a summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. Mathematically, a summit is a local maximum in elevation...

, 340 m, standing close southeast of Stefansson Bay

Stefansson Bay

Stefansson Bay is a bay indenting the coast for 10 miles between Law Promontory and Fold Island. Mawson of the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition applied the name to a sweep of the coast west of Cape Wilkins which he observed on about February 18, 1931...

. Discovered in January 1930 by the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition

British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition

The British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition was a research expedition into Antarctica between 1929 and 1931, involving two voyages over consecutive Austral summers...

 (BANZARE) under Douglas Mawson

Douglas Mawson

Sir Douglas Mawson, OBE, FRS, FAA was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and Academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.-Early work:He was appointed geologist to an...

 and named for Dr. Stanley W. Kemp

Stanley Wells Kemp

Stanley Wells Kemp, FRS was a British marine biologist.He was born in London, the second of three sons of Stephen Kemp, a professor at the Royal Academy and Royal School of Music. As a boy he took an interest in animals, collecting water beetles and maintaining them in aquariums and was a member...

, British marine biologist and oceanographer who was Director of Research of the Discovery Investigations

Discovery Investigations

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, 1924-36. This area was subsequently mapped in detail by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen

Lars Christensen

Lars Christensen was a Norwegian shipowner and whaling magnate with a keen interest in the exploration of Antarctica.-Career:...

Expedition, 1936-37. They named the peak Hornet, but Australian parties that explored the area in the l950s have identified it as Kemp Peak, named earlier by Mawson.