Bell buttress
| Bell buttress | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Cruzen Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 18 ′ S , 161 ° 0 ′ E | |
The Bell Buttress (English for Bell pillar ) is a forked and flattened mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Cruzen Range , it stretches from The Fortress plateau for about 2 km in a northerly direction into the southwestern section of the Upper Victoria Firnfeld .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the ridge in 2005 after Robin E. Bell of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University , who carried out aerogeophysical studies of the lithosphere in the West Antarctic Rift along the Transantarctic Mountains in five field research campaigns between 1991 and 1999 .
Web links
- Bell Buttress in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bell Buttress on geographic.org (English)