Odesos Buttress

Location of Nordenskjöld Coast on Antarctic Peninsula.

Odesos Buttress (Template:Lang-bg, ‘Rid Odesos’ \'rid o-'de-sos\) is the ice-covered buttress rising to 1600 m in the southwest foothills of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land. It is situated between south-southwest-flowing tributaries to Drygalski Glacier, and has precipitous, partly ice-free west and southeast slopes. The feature is named after the ancient town of Odesos in Northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Odesos Buttress is located at 64°32′40″S 60°54′40″W, which is 4 km northwest of Konstantin Buttress, 4 km east-northeast of Molerov Spur, and 4.15 km south of The Catwalk. British mapping in 1978.

Maps

• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1978.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

References

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

External links

• Odesos Buttress. Copernix satellite image

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