Dismal buttress
| Dismal buttress | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 178 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Dismal Buttress is a mainly ice-free rock massif in the Queen Maud Mountains of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises 5 km northwest of the Roberts Massif on the west side of the head end of the Shackleton Glacier .
Participants in the southern group of the 1961 to 1962 campaign as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition made the designation after a series of setbacks they had to cope with. It is named after Dismal , a lead dog with eight years of experience in the Antarctic, whom the group was forced to kill.
Web links
- Dismal Buttress in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dismal Buttress on geographic.org (English)