Name details

Hourglass Buttress

Hourglass Buttress (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Hourglass Buttress  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 139610

Feature type: Buttress

Origin

This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A rock buttress, rising to 2790m, approximately 6.4km west of Beard Peak in the La Gorce Mountains, Queen Maud Mountains.

Named For

Mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy (USN) aerial photographs, 1960-64. Geologically mapped by a U.S. Antarctic Research Program (USARP) - Arizona State University geological party, 1980-81. The name derives from a long snow chute up the face of the buttress.

Location

Latitude:
86° 40' 22.8" S
-86.67299°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
146° 26' 03.0" W
-146.43416°
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Altitude:
2790 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2018
Source Identifier:
REMA 8m tile 27_29 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Refer E. Stump, Reconaissance Geologic Map of the Mt. Blackburn Quadrangle, 1985. The standard 1:250k topographic map has the name in the wrong position which may cause confusion. Height from 1:250k topographic map

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
17-Dec-1981

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