Mancho Buttress

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

Mancho Buttress (Bulgarian: рид Манчо, ‘Rid Mancho’ \'rid 'man-cho\) is the ice-covered buttress rising to 1250 m 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.

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

Location

Mancho Buttress is located at 63°54′58″S 58°50′52″W / 63.91611°S 58.84778°W / -63.91611; -58.84778Coordinates: 63°54′58″S 58°50′52″W / 63.91611°S 58.84778°W / -63.91611; -58.84778, which is 4.61 km northwest of Baley Nunatak, 10.53 km south of Golesh Bluff and 8.24 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.

References

Mancho Buttress. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

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