Repeater buttress
| Repeater buttress | ||
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| location | Adelaide Island ( Adelaide and Biscoe Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| part of | Reptile Ridge | |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 33 ′ S , 68 ° 9 ′ W | |
Repeater Buttress (formerly Irn Bru Buttress ) is a large, 250 m high cliff on the West Antarctic Adelaide Island . It rises up between the Exhibition Buttress and the Ammo Col from the Reptile Ridge above the Rothera station .
British Antarctic Survey employees named it after Irn-Bru , a soft drink popular in Scotland . However, the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee changed its name in 2005 when a repeater station was built on the cliff between 1997 and 1998 .
Web links
- Repeater Buttress in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)