Rea Peak is a 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...

, 590 m, lying nearly 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) northeast of Rose Peak

Rose Peak

Rose Peak is a peak, 655 m, lying nearly 2 nautical miles southwest of Rea Peak and 3 nautical miles northeast of Ternyck Needle in the central part of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands...

 and 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) northwest of Mount Hopeful

Mount Hopeful

Mount Hopeful is a peak standing 1.5 nautical miles north of the head of King George Bay and 1.5 nautical miles southeast of Rea Peak on King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands...

 in the central part of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands

South Shetland Islands

The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands, lying about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, with a total area of . By the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, the Islands' sovereignty is neither recognized nor disputed by the signatories and they are free for use by any signatory for...

. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Henry Rea, Master of the Enderby Brothers' schooner the tender Rose to continue John Biscoe

John Biscoe

John Biscoe was an English mariner and explorer who commanded the first expedition known to have sighted the areas named Enderby Land and Graham Land along the coast of Antarctica...

's Antarctic researches. The Antarctic voyage was abandoned after the December 1833 or January 1834.