Mancho Buttress
| Mancho Buttress | ||
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| height | 1250 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Detroit plateau | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 54 '58 " S , 58 ° 50' 52" W | |
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The Mancho Buttress (English, Bulgarian рид Манчо rid Mantscho ) is an icy and 1250 m high mountain, and comb-like mountain in the north of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Trinity Peninsula, it rises 4.61 km northwest of the Balej Nunatak , 10.53 km south of the Golesh Bluff and 8.24 km southwest of the Senokos Nunatak . Its striking south-west slopes are partly not icy. The Aitkenhead Glacier is southwest and south of it.
German and British scientists carried out its mapping in 1996. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2010 after the Mantscho , a mountain in the Rila Mountains in southwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Mancho Buttress in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)