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Kopriva Peak ( bg, връх Коприва, vrah Kopriva, ) is the rocky peak rising to 1140 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019
at the south extremity of
Wolseley Buttress Wolseley Buttress () is a high buttress on the southern edge of Detroit Plateau, forming the west side of Albone Glacier on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) (1960–6 ...
on the southeast side of
Detroit Plateau Detroit Plateau () is a major interior plateau of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula, with heights between . Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier, from which it extends some in a general southwest direction ...
on
Nordenskjöld Coast The Nordenskjöld Coast (64° 30' S 60° 30' W) is located on the Antarctic Peninsula, more specifically Graham Land, which is the top region of the Peninsula. The Peninsula is a thin, long ice sheet with an Alpine-style mountain chain. The coast ...
in
Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that 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 ...
,
Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...
. It surmounts
Albone Glacier Albone Glacier () is a deeply entrenched narrow glacier on the east side of Wolseley Buttress flowing southward from Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. History Albone Glacier was mapped by the Falkland Islands Dep ...
to the east and
Edgeworth Glacier The Edgeworth Glacier () is a glacier long, flowing south-southwestwards from the edge of Detroit Plateau below Wolseley Buttress to the ice shelf west of Sobral Peninsula, Graham Land, Antarctica. Location Edgeworth Glacier is in Graham Land ...
to the west. The peak is named after the settlement of Kopriva in Western Bulgaria.


Location

Kopriva Peak is located at , which is 5.14 km southwest of
Bolgar Buttress Bolgar Buttress ( bg, text=рид Болгар, italic=yes, ‘Rid Bolgar’ \'rid 'bol-gar\) is the ice-covered buttress rising to 1688 mDolen Peak Dolen Peak ( bg, връх Долен, vrah Dolen, ) is the rocky peak rising to 819 mTrave Peak Trave Peak ( bg, връх Траве, vrah Trave, ) is the partly ice-covered peak rising to 983.5 mParamun Buttress.


Maps


Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.


Notes


References


Kopriva Peak.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. The Commission approves Bulgarian place names in ...
. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)


External links


Kopriva Peak.
Copernix satellite image Mountains of Graham Land Bulgaria and the Antarctic Nordenskjöld Coast {{NordenskjöldCoast-geo-stub