Moran buttress

Moran buttress
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height	2600 m
location	Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Mountains	Horlick Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	85 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ S , 125 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 85 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ S , 125 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Moran Buttress is a steep cliff in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica . The over 2,600 m high formation rises between the Davisville and Quonset glaciers along the north side of the Wisconsin Range in the Horlick Mountains .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it using its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1960 and 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after Lieutenant Commander Clifford D. Moran (1930-2012) of the US Navy, pilot in the Deep Freeze operations of 1966 and 1967.

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