Stoykite buttress
| Stoykite buttress | ||
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| height | 1600 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Detroit plateau | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 36 ′ 10 ″ S , 60 ° 51 ′ 10 ″ W | |
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The Stoykite Buttress (English, Bulgarian рид Стойките rid Stojkite ) is a 1,600 m high, icy mountains and comb-like mountain in the southwestern foothills of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It projects 10.15 km west-southwest of the Glazne Buttress , 4.2 km north of the Ruth Ridge , 10.35 km east of the southern end of the Fender Buttress and 4.5 km south of Constantine Buttress between flowing to the west side of the glaciers Drygalski Glacier on . Its distinctive north-west and south-east slopes are partly not icy.
British scientists mapped it in 1978. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the town of Stoykite in southern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Stoykite Buttress in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)