Buttress nunatakker
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 21 ′ S , 66 ° 51 ′ W | |
The Buttress Nunatakker are a group of distinctive nunatakkers on the Rymill Coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . With a height of up to 635 m, they rise not far from George VI Sound and around 16 km west-northwest of the Seward Mountains .
They were first sighted and roughly mapped in 1936 by participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . In 1949 the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a more precise survey and named the formation based on its appearance, which is reminiscent of supporting pillars (English: buttress ).
Web links
- Buttress nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Buttress Nunataks on geographic.org (English)