Window buttress
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| location | Adelaide Island ( Adelaide and Biscoe Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 41 ′ S , 68 ° 44 ′ W | |
Window Buttress (from English window 'window' and English buttress 'support, pillar' ) is an approximately 800 m high cliff in the south of Adelaide Island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises near the southeast end of the Fuchs-Piedmont Glacier and 5 km west-northwest of the summit of Mount Ditte .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it that way in 1982 because the upper part of the cliff looks like a window when viewed from the southwest .
Web links
- Window Buttress in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Window Buttress on geographic.org (English)