Crowell Buttresses
| Crowell Buttresses | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Elizabeth Range | |
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| Coordinates | 83 ° 3 ′ S , 162 ° 30 ′ E | |
The Crowell Buttresses are a series of tall pillars of snow and rock that stretch for 10 miles in the Queen Elizabeth Range in East Antarctica's Ross Dependency . They form the north face of the Cornwall Glacier for around 8 km and then run northeast over the same route along the western flank of the Lowery Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1966 after John T. Crowell († 1986), employee of the National Science Foundation and as such responsible for the use of research vessels in Antarctic waters from 1960 to 1963 as well as for the implementation of special missions from 1963 to 1969 .
Web links
- Crowell Butt Mattresses in Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Crowell Buttresses on geographic.org (English)