Nipple Peak
| Nipple Peak | ||
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| height | 675 m | |
| location | Wiencke Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 46 ′ 48 ″ S , 63 ° 16 ′ 31 ″ W | |
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The Nipple Peak (English for nipple tip ) is a 675 m high mountain in the north of Wiencke Island in the West Antarctic Palmer Archipelago . It rises 1.5 km northeast of the Channel Glacier .
It was discovered during the Belgica expedition (1897-1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery . The mountain was given its descriptive name in 1944 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey .
Web links
- Nipple Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nipple Peak on geographic.org (English)