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Glazne Buttress (Bulgarian: рид Глазне, ‘Rid Glazne’ \'rid gla-'zne\) is the ice-covered buttress descending from elevation 1730 to 300 m[1] in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land. It is situated between Arrol Icefall and upper Aleksiev Glacier, and has precipitous, partly ice-free northeast and south slopes. The feature is named after Glazne River in Southwestern Bulgaria.

Location

Glazne Buttress is located at 64°35′10″S 60°38′40″W, which is 13.7 km west-southwest of the summit of Kableshkov Ridge, 13.8 km west of Spoluka Point, 9.85 km north of Papiya Nunatak, and 9.7 km east-southeast of Konstantin Buttress. 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.

Notes

References

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

External links

• Glazne Buttress. Copernix satellite image

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

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Der Glazne Buttress (englisch; bulgarisch рид Глазне .mw-parser-output .Latn{font-family:"Akzidenz Grotesk","Arial","Avant Garde Gothic","Calibri","Futura","Geneva","Gill Sans","Helvetica","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode","Lucida Grande","Stone Sans","Tahoma","Trebuchet","Univers","Verdana"}rid Glasne) ist ein 1650 m hoher, vereister und gebirgskammähnlicher Berg in den südöstlichen Ausläufern des Detroit-Plateaus an der Nordenskjöld-Küste des Grahamlands auf der Antarktischen Halbinsel. Er ragt 13,7 km westsüdwestlich des Gipfels des Kableshkov Ridge, 13,8 km westlich des Spoluka Point, 9,85 km nördlich des Papija-Nunataks und 9,7 km ostsüdöstlich des Konstantin Buttress zwischen dem Arrol-Eisfall und dem oberen Abschnitt des Aleksiew-Gletschers auf. Seine markanten Nordost- und Südhänge sind teilweise unvereist.

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