Stewart Buttress
| Stewart Buttress | ||
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| location | Coatsland , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Theron Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 79 ° 10 ′ S , 28 ° 44 ′ W | |
Stewart Buttress is a cliff up to 1005 m (according to British data 790 m ) high cliff in the East Antarctic Coatsland . In the Theron Mountains , it rises 3 km south of the Marø cliffs .
Participants of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) mapped it between 1956 and 1957. They named it after the meteorologist Reginald Horace Anthony Stewart (* 1922), who was part of the advance command of the research trip from 1955 to 1956.
Web links
- Stewart Buttress in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stewart Buttress on geographic.org (English)