The Triplets (Robert Island)


The Triplets is an ice-free three-pointed hill rising to 160 m at the southwest extremity of Alfatar Peninsula, Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and surmounting Coppermine Cove to the northwest, Mitchell Cove to the southeast, and English Strait to the west and south. Aconcagua Point is formed by an offshoot of the hill.
The Triplets were charted and descriptively named by Discovery Investigations personnel in 1935. Aconcagua Point was named by the 1948-49 Chilean Antarctic Expedition after the province of Aconcagua, Chile.

Location

The hill is located at which is 3.15 km southeast of Fort William, 750 m west-northwest of Debelyanov Point, 3.55 km northwest of Negra Point, 6.22 km north-northeast of Spark Point, Greenwich Island, 3.13 km east-northeast of Barrientos Island, Aitcho Islands and 4.1 km east-southeast of Bilyana Island, Aitcho Islands.

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