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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Veles Bastion (BGR) 64° 20' 05.0" S 62° 31' 30.0" W Buttress
Name ID: 137952 Place ID: 19577

The ice-covered buttress of elevation 1200 m forming the SW extremity of Stribog Mountains on Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago. Situated 3.13 km E of Fleming Point, 10.15 km SW of Mount Parry, 7 km WNW of Mount Imhotep and 2.77 km N of Mount Sarnegor. Steep and partly ice-free N, W and SW slopes. Surmounts Zlatiya Glacier to the E and S. British mapping in 1980 and 2008. Named after the Slavic god of wisdom and knowledge Veles.

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