Barrett Buttress
| Barrett Buttress | ||
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| height | 1600 m | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 13 '10 " S , 65 ° 35' 54" W | |
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The Barrett Buttress (English for Barrett pillar ) is a 1600 m high nunatak in the western Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 14.5 km southwest of the Blanchard Nunatakker on the southern edge of the Goodenough Glacier . The Nunatak has a 150 m high and non-iced northwest flank, while its southeast side is covered by the snow and ice masses of the continental plateau.
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy between 1966 and 1969. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1977 after the British geodesist Richard Giles Barrett (* 1950), who was responsible for the British Antarctic Survey between 1974 and 1976 worked on the stations on the Stonington and Adelaide Islands .
Web links
- Barrett Buttress in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Barrett Buttress on geographic.org (English)