Schulthess Buttress
| Schulthess Buttress | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Horlick Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 47 ′ S , 115 ° 0 ′ W | |
Schulthess Buttress is a massive and icy cliff in Marie-Byrd-Land in western Antarctica . In the Ohio Range of the Horlick Mountains , it rises between the Ricker Canyon and the Higgins Canyon on the north side of the Buckeye Table .
A team from the United States Antarctic Program to explore the Horlick Mountains took measurements of the cliff in December 1958 . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1962 after the Swiss photographer Emil Schulthess (1913-1996), who had accompanied the team.
Web links
- Schulthess Buttress in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Schulthess Buttress on geographic.org (English)