Walton Peak is a sharp 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...

, 825 m, which stands 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) north of Mount Rhamnus

Mount Rhamnus

Mount Rhamnus is a mountain, 865 m, which lies 2 nautical miles northeast of Mount Nemesis on the north side of Neny Fjord, Graham Land. Seen from the west, it appears as a mainly snow-covered pyramid. First surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition under Rymill...

 and is part of the irregular ridge separating Northeast Glacier

Northeast Glacier

Northeast Glacier is a steep, heavily crevassed glacier, 13 miles long and 5 miles wide at its mouth, which flows from McLeod Hill westward and then southwestwards into Marguerite Bay between the Debenham Islands and Roman Four Promontory, on the west coast of Graham Land...

 from Neny Fjord

Neny Fjord

Neny Fjord is a fjord which is 10 miles long in an east-west direction and 5 miles wide, between Red Rock Ridge and Roman Four Promontory on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.-History:...

, on the west coast of 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...

. First surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition

British Graham Land Expedition

A British expedition to Graham Land led by John Lachlan Cope took place between 1920 and 1922. The British Graham Land Expedition was a geophysical and exploration expedition to Graham Land in Antarctica between 1934 to 1937. Under the leadership of John Riddoch Rymill, the expedition spent two...

 (BGLE) under Rymill. Resurveyed in 1946 and 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Named for Eric W.K. Walton

Kevin Walton

Eric William Kevin Walton, GC, DSC , known as Kevin Walton, was an officer in the Royal Navy during World War II and, in 1946, was a winner of the Albert Medal, which in 1971 was superseded by the George Cross.-Early life:...

, FIDS engineer at Stonington Island

Stonington Island

Stonington Island is a rocky island lying 1 mile northeast of Neny Island in the eastern part of Marguerite Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land. Stonington Island is located at . Stonington Island, 0.4 miles long from northwest to southeast and 0.2 miles wide formerly connected by a drifted snow...

 in 1946 and 1947, who in 1946 rescued J.E. Tonkin of FIDS from a crevasse

Crevasse

A crevasse is a deep crack in an ice sheet rhys glacier . Crevasses form as a result of the movement and resulting stress associated with the sheer stress generated when two semi-rigid pieces above a plastic substrate have different rates of movement...

in Northeast Glacier.