Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
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 (2b)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Group of prominent coastal rock exposures, the highest 635 m, lying close inland from George VI Sound and 10 mi WNW of the Seward Mountains, on the W coast of Palmer Land. First seen from a distance and roughly surveyed in 1936 by the BGLE under Rymill. Visited and resurveyed in 1949 by the FIDS, who gave this descriptive name.
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