Angino buttress
| Angino buttress | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Angino Buttress (freely translated: Angino pillar ) is a mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It looms near the center of the Skelton Icefalls .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1964 after the American geologist Ernest Edward Angino (* 1932), who worked at the McMurdo station from 1959 to 1960 .
Web links
- Angino Buttress in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Angino Buttress on geographic.org (English)