Stoner Peak () is a mountain peak, 1,300 m, surmounting the east extremity of the ridge between Covert Glacier and Spring Glacier and forming its highest point, in northeast Royal Society Range, Victoria Land.
Stoner Peak was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after James E. Stoner, a cartographer with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) who was active in geodetic control planning and data reduction in USGS from 1981. Stoner was a member of the USGS geodetic control teams in McMurdo Dry Valleys during the 1986-87 and 1989-90 field seasons and a team leader in 1989-90, with additional control work in remote sites working from U.S. icebreakers.
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