Kopriva Peak
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Kopriva Peak is the rocky peak rising to 1100 m at the south extremity of Wolseley Buttress
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 . Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after...

 on the southeast side of Detroit Plateau
Detroit Plateau
Detroit Plateau is a major interior plateau of Graham Land, with heights between 1,500 and 1,800 m. Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier, from which it extends some in a general southwest direction to Herbert Plateau. The plateau was observed from the air by...

 on Nordenskjöld Coast
Nordenskjold Coast
Nordenskjold Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Longing and Cape Fairweather. The name was proposed in 1909 by Edwin Swift Balch, for Otto Nordenskiöld, Swedish geographer and leader of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04, who explored this coast...

 in Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which 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 the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

, Antarctica. It surmounts Albone Glacier
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...

 to the east and Edgeworth Glacier
Edgeworth Glacier
Edgeworth Glacier is a glacier 12 nautical miles long, flowing southwest from the edge of Detroit Plateau below Wolseley Buttress to the ice shelf west of Sobral Peninsula, Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . Named by United Kingdom...

 to the west.

The peak is named after the settlement of Kopriva in Western Bulgaria.

Location

Kopriva Peak is located at 64°14′38"S 59°46′00"W, which is 5.14 km southwest of Bolgar Buttress
Bolgar Buttress
Bolgar Buttress is the ice-covered buttress rising to 1500 m on the southeast side of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, situated between the upper courses of Pyke and Albone Glaciers...

, 10.38 km northwest of Dolen Peak
Dolen Peak
Dolen Peak is the rocky peak rising to 800 m at the northwest coast of Larsen Inlet, Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, situated west of the lower course of Albone Glacier.The peak is named after the settlement of Dolen in Southwestern Bulgaria....

, 8.73 km northeast of Trave Peak
Trave Peak
Trave Peak is the partly ice-covered peak rising to 850 m in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica...

 and 5.74 km east-southeast of Paramun Buttress
Paramun Buttress
Paramun Buttress is the ice-covered buttress rising to 1500 m on the southeast side of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, and situated between tributaries to Edgeworth Glacier...

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