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Mancho Buttress

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.

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Map of Mancho Buttress, Antarctica

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, 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.

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