Robertson Buttress
| Robertson Buttress | ||
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| height | 1040 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Robertson Buttress is a 1040 m high, cliff-like mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It is the westernmost of a series of such mountains that rise on the southern flank of Darwin Glacier between Alley and Gaussiran Glaciers .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2000 after William Gray Robertson Jr. of Antarctic Support Associates , an expert in the design and installation of communications systems for the United States Antarctic Program in the McMurdo Sound region and in the Antarctic dry valleys between 1990 and 2000.
Web links
- Robertson Buttress in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Robertson Buttress on geographic.org (English)