Seven Buttresses
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 63 ° 35 ′ S , 57 ° 10 ′ W | |
The Seven Buttresses (English for seven pillars ) are seven strung together rock pillars in the north of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They rise up to heights of up to 150 m over a length of 6 km on the west side of the Tabarin Peninsula or on the east bank of Duse Bay . The individual columns are separated from each other by narrow icefalls .
They were probably spotted for the first time by a team led by Johan Gunnar Andersson during the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903). They received their descriptive name from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in the course of a survey carried out in 1946.
Web links
- Seven Butt Mattresses in Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Seven Buttresses on geographic.org (English)