Boulton Peak
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Boulton Peak is a 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...

 at the southeast side of Curtiss Bay
Curtiss Bay
Curtiss Bay is a bay about 4 nautical miles wide, indenting the west coast of Graham Land just north of Chavdar Peninsula, and entered between Cape Sterneck and Cape Andreas on Davis Coast. The name Bahia Inutil appearing on a 1957 Argentine chart is considered misleading; the bay has been...

, about 5 miles (8 km) south of Cape Andreas, 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...

 in Antarctica. It surmounts Pirin Glacier
Pirin Glacier
Pirin Glacier is the 5.7 km long and 6 km wide glacier situated next east of Chavdar Peninsula on Davis Coast on the Antarctic Peninsula. Situated west of Wright Ice Piedmont, north of Gregory Glacier and east of Samodiva Glacier...

 to the north and Gregory Glacier
Gregory Glacier
Gregory Glacier is a glacier flowing into Cierva Cove north of Breguet Glacier, on the west coast of Graham Land. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for H. Franklin Gregory, American pioneer in the development and...

 to the south. It was mapped from air photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd
Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd
Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd was a British aerial photography company. It incorporated Aerofilms Ltd and the Aircraft Operating Company.In 1947 it was using three types of aircraft: Austers, a Percival Proctor and a D. H. Rapide and planned to acquire one or more Percival Mergansers...

 (1955–57), and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory and the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands...

 for Matthew P. W. Boulton, English inventor of ailerons for lateral control of aircraft, in 1868.
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