Fender Buttress

Fender Buttress (64°34′S 61°4′W) is a rock buttress rising to more than 1,600 metres (5,250 ft), projecting from the south side of Herbert Plateau into the head of Drygalski Glacier, Graham Land.

It was mapped from surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (1960–61), and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Guillaume Fender of Buenos Aires, the inventor of an early type of track-laying vehicle (British Patent of 1882, taken out by John C. Mewburn).[1]

References
  1. "Fender Buttress". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-03-19.

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