Farmer Buttress
| Farmer Buttress | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 24 ′ 58 ″ S , 67 ° 0 ′ 1 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Bauer Buttress is a protruding rock formation on the Arrowsmith Peninsula on Loubet Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises on the northeast flank of Mount Rendu near the head end of the Heim Glacier .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in the course of geodetic work for the British Antarctic Survey between 1980 and 1981. The namesake is the French engineer and glaciologist Albert Bauer (1916-2003), who lived on the Kerguelen , Adélieland , Greenland and Iceland was active.
Web links
- Bauer Buttress in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bauer Buttress on geographic.org (English)