Cockscomb Buttress
| Cockscomb Buttress | ||
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| height | 465 m | |
| location | Coronation Island , South Orkney Islands | |
| Coordinates | 60 ° 36 '58 " S , 45 ° 42' 0" W | |
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The Cockscomb Buttress (English for cockscomb pillar ) is a striking, isolated and 465 m high rock massif in the south of Coronation Island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It rises 1.5 km northwest of Echo Mountain on the east bank of Norway Bight .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out the descriptive naming following measurements in 1950.
Web links
- Cockscomb Buttress in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cockscomb Buttress on geographic.org (English)