Jenny Buttress
| Jenny Buttress | ||
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| height | 200 m | |
| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 61 ° 58 '34 " S , 57 ° 41' 36" W | |
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Jenny Buttress is a 200 m high rock massif on the east coast of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises 4 km north of Melville Peak above Destruction Bay .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the sealers Jenny from the Isle of Wight , which 17 years after the last logbook entry of Captain in September 1840, seven deaths on board the whaler Hope in the Drake Passage was discovered drifting.
Web links
- Jenny Buttress in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jenny Buttress on geographic.org (English)