Robertson Buttress

Coordinates: 79°51′S 158°17′E / 79.850°S 158.283°E / -79.850; 158.283
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Robertson Buttress (79°51′S 158°17′E / 79.850°S 158.283°E / -79.850; 158.283) is the westernmost (1040 m) in a series of large rock buttresses on the south side of Darwin Glacier between Alley Glacier and Gaussiran Glacier. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after William Gray Robertson, Jr. of ASA, a specialist in the design and installation of communication systems for United States Antarctic Program (USAP) in the McMurdo Sound and McMurdo Dry Valleys areas from 1990 to 2000.

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