Fender Buttress (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Fender Buttress (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Buttress
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
rising to c.1500m on S side of Herbert Plateau, N central Graham Land, was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Hope Bay", 1961-62; in association with the names of pioneers of overland mechanical transport grouped in this area, named after Guillaume Fender, of Buenos Aires, inventor of an early type of track-laying vehicle (British Patent 1168 of 1882, taken out by J. C. Mewburn) (APC, 1964, p.3; BAS 250 sheet SQ 19-20/4, 1-DOS 1974).
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