Red Buttress Peak
| Red Buttress Peak | ||
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| height | 1060 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Red Buttress Peak (English for Red pillars summit ) is a 1,060 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises from a massive rock massif between the lower sections of the Benson and Hunt glaciers . Its eastern flank consists of a large cliff made of red granite .
The New Zealand Northern Group of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) gave it its descriptive name.
Web links
- Red Buttress Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Red Buttress Peak on geographic.org (English)