Brown buttress
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 Topographic map sheet (1: 250,000) with the as yet unnamed Brown Buttress between the Dickey Glacier and the Surveyors Range (center) |
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| height | 800 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Surveyors Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Brown Buttress (freely translated: Brown Pillar ) is a wedge-shaped and 800 m high rock massif on the Shackleton coast in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises not far from the head of the Dickey Glacier east of the Surveyors Range .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on February 27, 2003 after Raymond Frederick Brown, who was part of the hibernation team at Hallett Station on Cape Hallett as a technician on the geomagnetic project in 1960 .
Web links
- Brown Buttress in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Brown Buttress on geographic.org (English)