McCarthy Buttress
| McCarthy Buttress | ||
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| location | Heard ( Heard and McDonald Islands ) | |
| part of | Big Ben | |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 5 ′ S , 73 ° 32 ′ E | |
McCarthy Buttress is a 1135 m high and rocky ridge of the Big Ben volcano on the island of Heard in the southern Indian Ocean . It extends north from Davis Dome towards the Downes Glacier
It is named after James W. P. McCarthy, meteorologist for a 1950 campaign of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions to Heard Island.
Web links
- McCarthy Buttress in the directory of the Australian Antarctic Data Center (English)