Billie Peak

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Billie Peak
height 725  m
location Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago
Mountains Osterrieth Range
Coordinates 64 ° 45 '23 "  S , 63 ° 22' 39"  W Coordinates: 64 ° 45 '23 "  S , 63 ° 22' 39"  W
Billie Peak (Antarctic Peninsula)
Billie Peak

The Billie Peak is a 725  m high mountain at the Neumayer Channel adjoining southeast coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago . It rises 2.5 km east-northeast of Bay Point at the southwest end of the Osterrieth Range .

It was discovered during the Belgica expedition (1897-1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery . The name of the mountain can be found for the first time on a map of the British Discovery Investigations from 1927. The naming background has not survived.

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