Jenny Buttress

Jenny Buttress is a rock buttress rising to about 650 feet above Destruction Bay, on the east side of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands, part of the British Antarctic Territory.

The buttress was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from "Admiralty Bay" in 1948. Later it was surveyed by air photography by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956, and a further survey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey followed in 1958.

The rock was named after the sealing ship Jenny from the Isle of Wight, which was found drifting in Drake Passage by the whaling ship Hope (under Captain Brighton) in September 1840; her crew were all dead and the log entered to 17 January 1823.

Location

• Location map: 61°58’34"S, 57°41’36"W

References

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