Ruseski Buttress
| Ruseski Buttress | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Wisconsin Range , Horlick Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 124 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Ruseski Buttress ( English for Ruseski pillar ) is a protruding rock spur in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It rises along the north side of the Wisconsin Range in the Horlick Mountains , where it forms the southern portal to Perkins Canyon .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and using aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1959 and 1960. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1962 after Lieutenant Peter P. Ruseski (1929-2015) of the US Navy, who was responsible for the Had heard occupation of the Byrd station in the Antarctic winter of 1958.
Web links
- Ruseski Buttress in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ruseski Buttress on geographic.org (English)