Vittoria Buttress
| Vittoria Buttress | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
| part of | Lassus Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 28 ′ S , 71 ° 39 ′ W | |
Vittoria Buttress is a striking and 750 m high cliff in the north of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It forms the northwestern extension of the Lassus Mountains and towers over the southeastern shore of Lasarev Bay .
The British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it in 1960 using aerial photographs taken by the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the cliff in 1961 after the Spanish composer Tomás Luis de Victoria (1535-1611).
Web links
- Vittoria Buttress in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vittoria Buttress on geographic.org (English)