- Mirny Peak
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Mirnyy Peak (69°20′S 72°34′W / 69.333°S 72.567°W) is a prominent peak, 750 m, 4 nautical miles (7 km) northeast of Enigma Peak in the north part of Rothschild Island. Presumably first seen from a distance by the Russian expedition of 1821 under Bellingshausen. Photographed from the air by the United States Antarctic Service (USAS), 1939-41, and roughly mapped. Mapped in detail from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947-48, by Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1960. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for the sloop Mirnyy, one of the ships of the Bellingshausen expedition.
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