Buttress Peak (Freyberg Mountains)
| Buttress Peak | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Freyberg Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Buttress Peak (English for pillar tip ) is a mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Freyberg Mountains, it rises at the eastern end of the central ridge of Gallipoli Heights .
The mountain got its descriptive name from the New Zealand geologist Peter John Oliver, who examined it between 1981 and 1982 as part of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program .
Web links
- Buttress Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Buttress Peak on geographic.org (English)