Taylor Buttresses
| Taylor Buttresses | ||
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| height | 1410 m | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 7 '48 " S , 67 ° 21' 30" W | |
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The Taylor Buttresses are a 1410 m high, oval hill reminiscent of a whale back in the western Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises near the head ends of the Riley and Chapman glaciers . Its smooth contour is broken through at the northern end by three prominent rock pillars.
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1977 after the geologist Brian James Taylor (* 1937) of the British Antarctic Survey , who worked at the station at Fossil Bluff on Alexander I Island from 1961 to 1963 .
Web links
- Taylor Buttresses in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Taylor Buttresses on geographic.org (English)