Gibbney Buttress
| Gibbney Buttress | ||
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| location | Heard Island ( Heard and McDonald Islands ) | |
| part of | Big Ben | |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 5 ′ S , 73 ° 30 ′ E | |
Gibbney Buttress is a 1,800 m high, steep-walled ridge of the Big Ben volcano on the island of Heard in the southern Indian Ocean . It rises on the north side of Big Ben and extends from Davis Dome in a mainly northwest direction to Atlas Cove .
It is named after L. F. Gibbney, biologist of two campaigns of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1950 and 1952 to Heard Island.
Web links
- Gibbney Buttress in the directory of the Australian Antarctic Data Center (English)