Mancho Buttress [SEP] continent
Mancho Buttress
Mancho Buttress (, ‘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 , which is 4.61 km northwest of Baley Nunatak, 10.53 km
Aitkenhead Glacier
Aitkenhead Glacier () is a long glacier flowing east-southeast from the Detroit Plateau, Graham Land, (south of Mancho Buttress and Baley Nunatak and north of Simpson Nunatak and Hitar Petar Nunatak) into Prince Gustav Channel (close north of Alectoria Island). It was mapped from surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) (1960–61), and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Neil Aitkenhead, a FIDS geologist at Hope Bay (1959–60).
See also.