Constantine Buttress
| Constantine Buttress | ||
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| height | 1700 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Detroit plateau | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 33 '45 " S , 60 ° 50' 20" W | |
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The Konstantin Buttress (English, Bulgarian рид Константин rid Constantine ) is a 1,700 m high, icy mountains and comb-like mountain in the southwestern foothills of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 9.7 km west-northwest of the Glazne Buttress , 4.5 km north of the Stoykite Buttress and 4 km southeast of the Odesos Buttress between the south-west flowing secondary glaciers of the Drygalski Glacier . Its striking west and south slopes are partly not icy.
British scientists mapped it in 1978. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after Constantine II , Bulgarian Tsar from 1396 to 1422.
Web links
- Konstantin Buttress in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)