Shapkarev Buttress
| Shapkarev Buttress | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| part of | Hemimont plateau | |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 41 ′ S , 66 ° 27 ′ W | |
Shapkarev Buttress (English, Bulgarian Шапкарев рид Schapkarew rid ) is a rounded, mostly icy, 1,600 m high and Western-aligned east 13 km long and 16 km wide mountain range on the Fallières coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . On the west side of the Hemimont Plateau, it rises 12.7 km south of Hayduta Buttress , 18.2 km north-northeast of Bunovo Peak and 11.4 km east-northeast of Glavinitsa Peak . Its steep south, west and north slopes are partly not icy. The Forbes Glacier lies to the south, the Marwodol and Kashin glaciers to the west and the Perutz Glacier to the north of it.
British scientists mapped it in 1978. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2016 after the Bulgarian folklorist and ethnologist Kusman Shapkarew (1834–1909).
Web links
- Shapkarev Buttress in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)