Salient Peak is a buttressed 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...

 of the Royal Society Range

Royal Society Range

The Royal Society Range is a majestic mountain range in Victoria Land, Antarctica. With its summit at , the massive Mount Lister forms the highest point in this range. Mount Lister is located along the western shore of McMurdo Sound between the Koettlitz, Skelton and Ferrar glaciers...

 between Mounts Rucker

Mount Rucker

Mount Rucker is a mountain, 3,815 m, immediately south of Johns Hopkins Ridge in the Royal Society Range of Victoria Land. Discovered by the Discovery expedition which named it for Sir Arthur Rucker, Honorary Secretary of the Royal Society....

 and Hooker. A ridge descends eastward from it and forms the watershed between tributaries of the Blue Glacier

Blue Glacier

Blue Glacier is a large glacier located to the north of Mount Olympus in the Olympic Mountains of Washington. The glacier covers an area of and contains of ice and snow in spite of its low terminus elevation...

 on the north and Walcott Glacier

Walcott Glacier

Walcott Glacier is a glacier between Radian and Howchin Glaciers, descending eastward from the Royal Society Range toward Walcott Bay. Named by Taylor of the British Antarctic Expedition , presumably for Charles D. Walcott, Director of the U.S. Geological Survey and Secretary of the Smithsonian...

 on the south. So named by the New Zealand Blue Glacier Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition

Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition

The 1955–58 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition was a Commonwealth-sponsored expedition that successfully completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole...

(1956–58) because it forms a salient of the Royal Society Range, where the summit turns southwest toward Mounts Rucker and Huggins.