Feature Name (see definition): Crowell Buttresses

Feature Class (see definition): Cliff

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 3353

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 83° 03' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 162° 30' 00" E

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -83.05

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): 162.5

Elevation (see definition): No data

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1966

Description (see definition): A series of high snow and rock buttresses, 10 mi long, forming the N wall of Cornwall Glacier for a distance of 5 mi and then trending NE an equal distance along the W side of Lowery Glacier, in Queen Elizabeth Range. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after John T. Crowell (d. 1986), who served with the National Science Foundation as Antarctic Vessel Project Officer, 1960-63, and Special Projects Officer, 1963-69. He led a reconnaissance party to the Antarctic Peninsula in January 1963 to investigate the location for a U.S. station in the peninsula area.

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