Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Buttress Nunataks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Buttress Nunataks (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 635m on E coast of George VI Sound, NW of Seward Mountains, were seen from a distance and roughly mapped by BGLE in October 1936 (Stephenson, 1940, map facing p.232); further mapped by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in December 1949 and named descriptively (APC, 1955, p.6; DCS 601 sheet W 72 66, 1956; USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979). Nunataki Batress (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Nunataki Battress (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl. 24). The feature was photographed from the air by USN, 1966-69.
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