Mancho Buttress

Mancho Buttress (Bulgarian: рид Манчо, ‘Rid Mancho’ \'rid 'man-cho\) is the ice-covered buttress rising to 1386 m[1] on the northeast side of Detroit Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It has precipitous and partly ice-free southwest slopes, and surmounts Aitkenhead Glacier to the southwest and south.

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

The feature is named after Mancho Peak in Rila Mountain, Southwestern Bulgaria.

Location

Mancho Buttress is located at 63°55′20.8″S 58°51′02.6″W, which is 4.1 km northwest of Baley Nunatak, 11.2 km south of Golesh Bluff and 8.7 km southwest of Senokos Nunatak. German-British mapping in 1996.

Maps
  • Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
  • Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.

Notes
  1. Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica. Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019

References


This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.


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