Ferrell Buttress
| Ferrell Buttress | ||
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| height | 900 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Ferrell Buttress (English for Ferrell pillar ) is a striking and around 900 m high cliff in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . On the Hillary Coast , it looms near the eastern end of the Cranfield Icefalls on the southern flank of the mouth of Darwin Glacier into the Ross Ice Shelf .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the formation in 2000 after Lieutenant Commander William F. Ferrell of the United States Navy , pilot of the squadron VXE-6 at the camp on the Darwin Glacier operated between 1978 and 1979 .
Web links
- Ferrell Buttress in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ferrell Buttress on geographic.org (English)