Copper Peak (Antarctica)
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Copper Peak () is a peak, high and vivid green in color, standing north-northeast of
Billie Peak Billie Peak () is a peak, high, which rises east-northeast of Bay Point on the southeast coast of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. It was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Gerlache. The name appears on a ch ...
on the southeast side of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago off the
Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctic ...
. It was first seen by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899 under Adrien de Gerlache. The descriptive name appears on a chart based on a 1927 survey by Discovery Investigations personnel on the ''
RRS Discovery The RRS ''Discovery'' is a barque-rigged auxiliary steamship built in Dundee, Scotland for Antarctic research. Launched in 1901, she was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in the United Kingdom. Her first mission was th ...
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Mountains of the Palmer Archipelago {{PalmerArchipelago-geo-stub