Buttress Nunataks

The Buttress Nunataks are a group of prominent coastal nunataks (which is to say, exposed rock outcrops in an icefield) on the coast of Palmer Land in the British Antarctic Territory. The highest of the peaks reaches at 2,083 feet

The nunataks are to be found on the English Coast at the root of the Antarctic Peninsula, inland from the George VI Sound and ten miles west-northwest of the Seward Mountains. They were first seen from a distance and roughly surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition under John Riddoch Rymill. They were visited and resurveyed in 1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, who gave them the descriptive name 'Buttress'.

Location

• Location map: 72°22’0"S, 66°46’60"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Buttress Nunataks