Béchervaise buttress
| Béchervaise buttress | ||
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| location | Heard ( Heard and McDonald Islands ) | |
| part of | Big Ben | |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 5 ′ S , 73 ° 35 ′ E | |
Béchervaise Buttress is a 1330 m high ridge of Big Ben on the island of Heard in the southern Indian Ocean . It rises in a southwest-northeast orientation on the northeast flank of the volcano.
Namesake is the Australian polar explorer John Mayston Béchervaise (1910-1998), head of the station at Atlas Cove for a winter team of a 1953 campaign of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions .
Web links
- Béchervaise Buttress in the directory of the Australian Antarctic Data Center (English)