[1] Download coordinates as: Scripps Heights are near the Wilkins Coast of northeastern Palmer Land, beside the Weddell Sea to the east.

The Lurabee Glacier flows east-northeast along the southeast margin of Scripps Heights to enter the sea south of Casey Inlet.

Correlation of aerial photographs taken by Lincoln Ellsworth in 1935 and preliminary reports of the findings of the British Graham Land expedition (BGLE) under John Rymill, 1934–37, led W. L. G. Joerg to interpret this to be a peninsula.

A bold, ice-covered headland rising to 625 metres (2,051 ft) high, forming the seaward extremity of Scripps Heights.

Discovered by Sir Hubert Wilkins in 1928 and named by him for Frederic C. Walcott of the Council of the American Geographical Society.