Gluck Peak is a rock peak, 335 m, located 6.5 nautical miles (12 km) south-southwest of Mount Borodin

Mount Borodin

Mount Borodin is a mainly ice-covered mountain, high, with a rock outcrop on the east side, north-northeast of Gluck Peak in the southwest part of Alexander Island. A number of peaks in this general vicinity first appear on the maps of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition , 1947–48. This...

 on Beethoven Peninsula

Beethoven Peninsula

The Beethoven Peninsula is a deeply indented, ice-covered peninsula, long in a northeast-southwest direction and wide at its broadest part, forming the southwest part of Alexander Island, which lies off the southwestern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula. The Mendelssohn Inlet, the Brahms Inlet...

, Alexander Island

Alexander Island

Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land is the largest island of Antarctica, with an area of lying in the Bellingshausen Sea west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay and George VI Sound. Alexander Island lies off...

. First mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition

Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition

The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition was an expedition from 1947-1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.-Background:...

 (RARE), 1947-48, by Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1960. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714-87), Austrian composer.