Corner Peak is a pyramidal 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...

, 930 metres (3,051.2 ft) high, with considerable rock exposed on its northern face. Located in the northeastern Srednogorie Heights

Srednogorie Heights

Srednogorie Heights are the heights rising to 1220 m on the northwest side of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated east of Bone Bay, west of Louis-Philippe Plateau, north of Russell West Glacier and south of Malorad Glacier...

, 8 miles (12.9 km) east-southeast of Cape Roquemaurel

Cape Roquemaurel

Cape Roquemaurel is a prominent rocky headland at the east side of the entrance to Bone Bay, on the north side of Trinity Peninsula. Discovered by a French expedition, 1837–40, under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, and named by him for Lieutenant Louis de Roquemaurel, second-in-command of the...

, it marks a corner in the broad glacial valley of Malorad Glacier

Malorad Glacier

Malorad Glacier is the 14 km long and 10.5 km wide glacier on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated northeast of Hanson Hill, north of Srednogorie Heights, northwest of Louis-Philippe Plateau and southwest of Marescot Ridge...

 which rises immediately to the southeast and fans out northwest to form a piedmont ice sheet on the northwest side of the Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...

. It was named by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey following a 1946 survey.

Map

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.