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.

Map

Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

References

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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

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