Sauria Buttress

Sauria Buttress
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height	1300 m
location	Coatsland , East Antarctica
Mountains	Shackleton Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	80 ° 31 '49 " S , 20 ° 21' 55" W Coordinates: 80 ° 31 '49 " S , 20 ° 21' 55" W.
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Sauria Buttress is an approximately 1300 m high rock pillar in the East Antarctic Coatsland . In the Shackleton Range , it looms between the Lundström Knoll and the Pioneers Escarpment .

Aerial photos of this rock pillar were taken in 1967 by the United States Navy . The British Antarctic Survey carried out surveys between 1968 and 1971. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1972 after the French inventor Charles Sauria (1812–1895), who developed the first working friction match in 1831 .

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