Jones Buttress
| Jones Buttress | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Surveyors Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Jones Buttress is a wedge-shaped rock massif on the Shackleton coast of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Surveyors Range , it rises 3 km north of the Brown Buttress and extends into the eastern flank of the Dickey Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it on 2003 after Llewellyn Ramsay Jones, who had been part of the winter team at Hallett Station on Cape Hallett as a member of the geomagnetic project in 1959 .
Web links
- Jones Buttress in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jones Buttress on geographic.org