Paroriya buttress
| Paroriya buttress | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Rouen Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 14 ′ S , 70 ° 55 ′ W | |
Paroriya Buttress (English; Bulgarian рид Парория rid Parogija ) is a largely icy, northeast-southwest orientation 9 km long, 5.75 km wide and up to 1800 m high mountain ridge on the Antarctic Alexander I Island . It rises 9.4 km southwest of Mount Hall , 10 km northwest of Mount Sanderson and 15.14 km east-northeast of Breze Peak on the west side of the Rouen Mountains . The Rosselin Glacier lies to the south, the head end of the Palestrina Glacier to the southwest, the Russian Gap to the northwest and the Frachat Glacier to the north-northwest of it.
British scientists mapped it in 1971. The two Bulgarian geologists Christo Pimperew and Borislaw Kamenow visited it on January 10, 1988 together with Philip Nell and Peter Marquis from the British Antarctic Survey . The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2017 after the village of Parogija in southeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Paroriya Buttress in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)