 The nunatak was photographed from aircraft of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS), 1939–41, and was mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photography, 1959–65.Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for John L. Shoemake, aerographer, U.S. Navy, weather observer at Brockton Station on the Ross Ice Shelf during two summer seasons, 1968–69 and 1969–70.Shoemaker Glacier

Shoemaker Glacier () is a tributary glacier in the Southern Cross Mountains of Antarctica, flowing east along the south side of Daley Hills to Aviator Glacier, in Victoria Land.