Glazne buttress
| Glazne buttress | ||
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| height | 1650 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Detroit plateau | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 35 ′ 10 ″ S , 60 ° 38 ′ 40 ″ W | |
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The Glazne Buttress (English, Bulgarian рид Глазне rid Glasne ) is a 1,650 m high, icy mountains and comb-like mountain in the southeastern foothills of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 13.7 km west-southwest of the summit of Kableshkov Ridge , 13.8 km west of Spoluka Point , 9.85 km north of Papija Nunatak and 9.7 km east-southeast of Konstantin Buttress between the Arrol Icefall and the upper section of the Aleksiev Glacier . Its distinctive north-east and south-facing slopes are partly not icy.
British scientists mapped it in 1978. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the Glasne River in southwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Glazne Buttress in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)