Messent Peak

Messent Peak (-69.4°N, -66.21667°W) is one of the Bristly Peaks, rising to about 1,100 m just west of Brodie Peak and 5 nmi southwest of Mount Castro in the central Antarctic Peninsula. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1977 for David R. Messent, a geodesist at the U.S. Army Topographic Command (later the Defense Mapping Agency, Hydrographic/Topographic Center), Palmer Station, winter party 1969.