Buchia Buttress
| Buchia Buttress | ||
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| location | Adelaide Island , Adelaide and Biscoe Islands , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 16 ′ 28 ″ S , 68 ° 14 ′ 30 ″ W | |
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Buchia Buttress is a rock formation on Adelaide Island west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises at the southwest end of Mount Bouvier .
It was named in 1982 by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee . It is named after the fossils of marine mussels of the genus Buchia , which the British Antarctic Survey first found here during a geological survey between 1980 and 1981.
Web links
- Buchia Buttress in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Buchia Buttress on geographic.org (English)