Mount Hopeful is a peak standing north of the head of

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and 1.5 nautical miles southeast of

Rea Peak Rea Peak is a peak, 590 m, lying nearly 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) northeast of Rose Peak and 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) northwest of Mount Hopeful in the central part of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Named by the U ...

on King George Island, in the

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. It was named by the

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in 1960 for the Enderby Brothers' schooner ''Hopeful'' (Captain

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), which sailed from London in 1833 in company with the tender ''Rose'' in order to continue John Biscoe's Antarctic researches. The Antarctic voyage was abandoned after the ''Rose'' had been crushed in the pack ice at in December 1833 or January 1834.

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