Mancho Buttress

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

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

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Place ID: 18836
Name ID: 137193

Feature type: (2f)

Origin

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

Narrative

The ice-covered buttress rising to 1250 m on the NE side of Detroit Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land. Situated 4.61 km NW of Baley Nunatak, 10.53 km S of Golesh Bluff and 8.24 km SW of Senokos Nunatak. Precipitous and partly ice-free SW slopes. Surmounting Aitkenhead Glacier to the SW and S. German-British mapping in 1996. Named after Mancho Peak in Rila Mountain, Southwestern Bulgaria. Approved on December 6, 2010.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
63° 54' 58.0" S
-63.91611°
Accurate to 0m
Longitude:
58° 50' 52.0" W
-58.84778°
Accurate to 0m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Accurate to 0m

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown The coordinates for this place name were derived from Map id 0 - This map does not exist in the SCAR Map Catalogue. in the SCAR Map Catalogue.
Source Name:
Unknown
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

new feature (Ivanov, 13.12.10)

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
12-Jun-2010

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