Kanak Peak () is a conspicuous ice-free peak, high, standing northwest of Mount Gniewek and north of the head of Carlyon Glacier in the Cook Mountains of Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1959–63, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Commander R.A. Kanak, U.S. Navy, commander of on ocean station duty in support of aircraft flights between Christchurch and McMurdo Sound in Operation Deep Freeze 1963. See also Murayama Crests, a group of peaks located 4 nautical miles (7 km) north-northeast of Kanak Peak References External links Mountains of Oates Land