Mitino buttress
| Mitino buttress | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| part of | Bruce plateaus | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 2 ′ S , 64 ° 24 ′ W | |
The Mitino Buttress (English; Bulgarian рид Митино rid Mitino ) is a rounded, icy, in a south-southeast-north-northwest orientation 14 km long, 7 km wide and up to 1000 m high and icy mountain ridge on the Graham coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 12.3 km northeast of Mount Genecand , 11.15 km east of Prestoy Point , 7.3 km southeast of Vardun Point , 15.13 km south-southwest of Mount Dewey and 41.15 km west of Kjulewcha Nunatak in the west Foothills of the Bruce Plateau . The Birley Glacier is located northeast and Lawrie Glacier west of it.
British scientists mapped it in 1976. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2015 after the town of Mitino in southwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Mitino Buttress in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)