Copper Col
| Copper Col | |||
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| Pass height | 305 m | ||
| Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago | |||
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 44 ′ 6 ″ S , 63 ° 21 ′ 42 ″ W | ||
The Copper Col ( English for Copper Pass ) is a 305 m high mountain pass on the Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is in the Osterrieth Range and runs between Copper Peak and Billie Peak .
The first sighting is probably on participants of the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) under the direction of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery . Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations mapped it in 1927 based on the neighboring Copper Peak as Copper Glacier . The Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey came to a recent survey in 1955 concluded that it is more of a mountain pass as a glacier with this project, and took a corresponding adjustment of the original designation before.
Web links
- Copper Col in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Copper Col on geographic.org (English)