Blorenge buttress
| Blorenge buttress | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Convoy Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Blorenge Buttress (freely translated: Blorenge pillar ) is a striking rock pillar made of orange-colored sandstone in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Convoy Range, it rises 3.5 km west of the summit of Flagship Mountain from a large ice-free area at the western end of the Viking Hills . The rock pillar is flanked in the west by steeply sloping blue ice and a large cornice of the flight deck firn field .
The rock pillar was mapped and geologically examined by participants in a 1976-1977 campaign as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions . The head of the group, New Zealand geologist Christopher J. Burgess, named it after the Blorenge hill in Monmouthshire, Wales .
Web links
- Blorenge Buttress in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Blorenge Buttress on geographic.org (English)