Buttress Peak (Queen Alexandra Chain)
| Buttress Peak | ||
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| height | 2950 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Buttress Peak (English for pillar tip ) is a 2950 m high and conical mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Alexandra chain of the Transantarctic Mountains, it rises 5 km south of Mount Stonehouse . Its eastern part protrudes in the form of a rock spur into the head end of the Berwick Glacier .
It received its descriptive name from participants in the 1961 to 1962 campaign as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition .
Web links
- Buttress Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Buttress Peak on geographic.org (English)