Carlson Buttress
| Carlson Buttress | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Dufek Massif , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 34 ′ 57 ″ S , 52 ° 20 ′ 21 ″ W | |
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The Carlson Buttress is a 1800 m (according to the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee 1750 m ) high rock spur in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the Dufek massif of the Pensacola Mountains, it rises northwest of Worcester Summit on the north side of the Jaeger Table .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the formation in 1979 after Christine Carlson, geologist of the United States Geological Survey , who worked in the Antarctic summer between 1976 and 1977 in the area of the Duffek massif.
Web links
- Carlson Buttress in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Carlson Buttress on geographic.org (English)