Stamp buttress
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 10 ′ S , 58 ° 10 ′ W | |
| location | King George Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
| Waters | Wesele Cove | |
Stamp Buttress is a towering and rocky headland on the south coast of King George Island in the Archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It forms the seaward end of Dunikowski Ridge on the banks of Wesele Cove .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1998 after the British geographer Laurence Dudley Stamp (1898-1966), who had lectured from 1923 to 1926 at the University of Rangoon and from 1926 to 1945 at the London School of Economics .
Web links
- Stamp Buttress in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stamp Buttress on geographic.org (English)