Wolseley Buttress

Wolseley Buttress
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height	1700 m
location	Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Mountains	Detroit plateau
Coordinates	64 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ S , 59 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 64 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ S , 59 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Wolseley Buttress is a 1700 m high rock massif in the west Antarctic Grahamland . It rises on the southern edge of the Detroit Plateau and flanks the western edge of the Albone Glacier .

The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it from 1960 to 1961. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1964 after the Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Company , which between 1908 and 1910 developed the type of snowmobile used on the Terra Nova Expedition ( 1910–1913) was used under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .

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