Sørlle Buttress

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Sørlle Buttress
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height 1370  m
location South Georgia
Mountains Allardyce Range
Coordinates 54 ° 16 ′ 55 "  S , 36 ° 50 ′ 5"  W Coordinates: 54 ° 16 ′ 55 "  S , 36 ° 50 ′ 5"  W
Sørlle Buttress (South Georgia)
Sørlle Buttress

Sørlle Buttress is a 1370  m (according to British data 1400  m ) high mountain on South Georgia . In the Allardyce Range , it looms between Mount Spaaman and the Three Brothers .

The South Georgia Survey mapped it in the course of its 1951-1957 survey campaign of South Georgia. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the mountain in 1958. It is named after the Norwegian whaling captain Petter Sørlle (1884–1933), who in 1922 held a patent for a slipway for landing whales and who was the first administrator of the whaling station in Stromness .

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