Paramun Buttress
Encyclopedia
Paramun Buttress is the ice-covered buttress rising to 1500 m on the southeast side of Detroit Plateau
on Nordenskjöld Coast
in Graham Land
, Antarctica, and situated between tributaries to Edgeworth Glacier
. It has steep and partly ice-free west, south and east slopes.
The peak is named after the settlement of Paramun in Western Bulgaria.
, 6.92 km north-northeast of Trave Peak
and 27.1 km south of Volov Peak
on Davis Coast
.
Detroit Plateau
Detroit Plateau is a major interior plateau of Graham Land, with heights between 1,500 and 1,800 m. Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier, from which it extends some in a general southwest direction to Herbert Plateau. The plateau was observed from the air by...
on Nordenskjöld Coast
Nordenskjold Coast
Nordenskjold Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Longing and Cape Fairweather. The name was proposed in 1909 by Edwin Swift Balch, for Otto Nordenskiöld, Swedish geographer and leader of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04, who explored this coast...
in Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...
, Antarctica, and situated between tributaries to Edgeworth Glacier
Edgeworth Glacier
Edgeworth Glacier is a glacier 12 nautical miles long, flowing southwest from the edge of Detroit Plateau below Wolseley Buttress to the ice shelf west of Sobral Peninsula, Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . Named by United Kingdom...
. It has steep and partly ice-free west, south and east slopes.
The peak is named after the settlement of Paramun in Western Bulgaria.
Location
Paramun Buttress is located at 64°13′39"S 59°52′44"W, which is 5.74 west-northwest of Kopriva PeakKopriva Peak
Kopriva Peak is the rocky peak rising to 1100 m at the south extremity of Wolseley Buttress on the southeast side of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica...
, 6.92 km north-northeast of Trave Peak
Trave Peak
Trave Peak is the partly ice-covered peak rising to 850 m in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica...
and 27.1 km south of Volov Peak
Volov Peak
Volov Peak is the rocky peak rising to 1148 m at the southwest extremity of Korten Ridge on Davis Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is surmounting Temple Glacier to the southwest....
on Davis Coast
Davis Coast
Davis Coast is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Kjellman and Cape Sterneck. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Captain John Davis, the American sealer who claimed to have made the first recorded landing on the continent of...
.
Maps
- Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993-2006.