Barton Buttress
| Barton Buttress | ||
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| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| part of | Tyrrell Ridge | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 9 ′ S , 58 ° 11 ′ W | |
Barton Buttress ( Filar Bartona in Polish ) is a massif on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It looms over the Tyrrell Ridge in the southern part of the Keller Peninsula .
Polish scientists named it in 1984. It is named after the British geologist Colin Munroe Barton (* 1934), who worked for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey on King George Island from 1951 to 1961 .
Web links
- Barton Buttress in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)