Duseberg Buttress

Duseberg Buttress
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height	500 m
location	Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Coordinates	65 ° 10 ′ 9 ″ S , 64 ° 4 ′ 51 ″ W Coordinates: 65 ° 10 ′ 9 ″ S , 64 ° 4 ′ 51 ″ W

Duseberg Buttress (English for Dusebergpfeiler ) is a 500 m high conical mountain at the Graham Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises on the southwest side of Mount Scott on the Kiev Peninsula opposite Petermann Island .

Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899), led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery, discovered it in 1898. De Gerlache named it on the erroneous assumption that it was a headland as Cap Duseberg after the one from Denmark derived diplomatic Holger Theodor Duseberg (1852-1910), a donor to the expedition and Belgian at that time consul in Copenhagen . Aerial photographs of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1955–1957), however, revealed the actual character of the object, as a result of which the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee decided on July 7, 1959 to adapt the name.

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