- Crowell Buttresses
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Crowell Buttresses (83°3′S 162°30′E / 83.05°S 162.5°E) is a series of high snow and rock buttresses, 10 nautical miles (18 km) long, forming the north wall of Cornwall Glacier for a distance of 5 nautical miles (9 km) and then trending northeast an equal distance along the west side of Lowery Glacier, in Queen Elizabeth Range. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after John T. Crowell (d. 1986), who served with the National Science Foundation as Antarctic Vessel Project Officer, 1960–63, and Special Projects Officer, 1963-69. He led a reconnaissance party to the Antarctic Peninsula in January 1963 to investigate the location for a U.S. station in the peninsula area.
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Crowell Buttresses" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).
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