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Stoykite Buttress (Bulgarian: рид Стойките, ‘Rid Stoykite’ \'rid 'stoy-ki-te\) is the ice-covered buttress descending from elevation 1650 to 1000 m[1] in the southwest foothills of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land. It is situated between west-flowing tributaries to Drygalski Glacier, and has precipitous, partly ice-free northwest and southeast slopes. The feature is named after the settlement of Stoykite in Southern Bulgaria.

Location

Stoykite Buttress is located at 64°36′10″S 60°51′10″W, which is 10.15 km west-southwest of Glazne Buttress, 4.2 km north of Ruth Ridge, 10.35 km east of the south extremity of Fender Buttress, and 4.5 km south 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

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

External links

• Stoykite 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 Stoykite Buttress (englisch; bulgarisch рид Стойките .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 Stojkite) ist ein 1600 m hoher, vereister und gebirgskammähnlicher Berg in den südwestlichen Ausläufern des Detroit-Plateaus an der Nordenskjöld-Küste des Grahamlands auf der Antarktischen Halbinsel. Er ragt 10,15 km westsüdwestlich des Glazne Buttress, 4,2 km nördlich des Ruth Ridge, 10,35 km östlich des südlichen Endes des Fender Buttress und 4,5 km südlich des Konstantin Buttress zwischen nach Westen fließenden Nebengletschern des Drygalski-Gletschers auf. Seine markanten Nordwest- und Südosthänge sind teilweise unvereist.

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