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Buttress Hill: Antarctica
SOURCE: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA
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This page presents the geographical name data for Buttress Hill in Antarctica, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division

Feature Name (see definition): Buttress Hill

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 2231

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 63° 34' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 057° 03' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -63.5666667

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -57.05

Elevation (see definition): 690

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1952

Description (see definition): Flat-topped hill, 690 m, with steep rock cliffs on the W side, standing 2 mi E of the most northern of the Seven Buttresses on Tabarin Peninsula in the NE extremity of Antarctic Peninsula. Charted in 1946 by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and so named because of its proximity to the Seven Buttresses.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data

NOTE: The information regarding Buttress Hill in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Buttress Hill information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Buttress Hill should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.


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