Buttress Hill
| Buttress Hill | ||
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| height | 690 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 33 ′ 17 ″ S , 57 ° 2 ′ 5 ″ W | |
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The Buttress Hill ( English for pillar hill ) is a 690 m (according to the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee 650 m ) high hill with rocky cliffs on the west flank and a flattened summit in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Tabarin Peninsula, it rises 3 km east of the northernmost hill of the Seven Buttresses .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) mapped it in 1946 and named it after its geographical proximity to the Seven Buttresses group.
Web links
- Buttress Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Buttress Hill on geographic.org (English)