Mitino Buttress ( bg, рид Митино, ‘Rid Mitino’ \'rid 'mi-ti-no\) is the rounded ice-covered buttress extending 14 km in south-southeast to north-northwest direction and 7 km wide, rising to 2072 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 in the west foothills of

Bruce Plateau Bruce Plateau () is an ice-covered plateau, at least long and about high, extending northeast from the heads of Gould Glacier and Erskine Glacier to the vicinity of Flandres Bay, in Graham Land. It borders Avery Plateau on the south and Forbidden ...

on Graham Coast in

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...

. Two offshoots of the feature form

Mezzo Buttress Mezzo Buttress () is a rocky buttress at the head of Barilari Bay just east of Lawrie Glacier, on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was charted by the British Graham Land Expedition under John Rymill, 1934–37, and was so named by the ...

on the west and

Strelcha Spur Strelcha Spur ( bg, рид Стрелча, ‘Rid Strelcha’ \'rid 'strel-cha\) is the rocky, partly ice-covered spur extending 5.3 km in south-southeast to north-northwest direction and 1.4 km wide, rising to 1572 m Birley Glacier Birley Glacier () is a glacier, at least long, flowing west into the eastern extremity of Barilari Bay north of Vardun Point, on the west coast of Graham Land. First seen and roughly surveyed in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean- ...

to the northeast and

Lawrie Glacier Lawrie Glacier () is a glacier flowing between Mount Genecand and Mezzo Buttress, and entering the head of Barilari Bay between Cherkovna Point and Prestoy Point on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was charted by the British Graham ...

to the west. The buttress is named after the settlement of Mitino in Southwestern Bulgaria.

Location

Mitino Buttress is located at , which is12.3 km northeast of

Mount Genecand Mount Genecand () is a mountain at the head of Barilari Bay between Lawrie Glacier and Weir Glacier, on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd in 1955–57, and mapped from these photos by the ...

, 11.15 km east of

Prestoy Point Prestoy Point ( bg, нос Престой, ‘Nos Prestoy’ \'nos pre-'stoy\) is the sharp point projecting 800 m into the head of Barilari Bay on Graham Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-po ...

, 7.3 km southeast of

Vardun Point Vardun Point ( bg, нос Вардун, ‘Nos Vardun’ \'nos var-'dun\) is the point projecting 1 km into the head of Barilari Bay on Graham Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, formed by an offshoot of Mitino Buttress. The point is named after the ...

, 15.13 km south-southwest of

Mount Dewey Mount Dewey () is a mountain, high, standing southeast of Mount Cheops on the west coast of Graham Land. It was charted by the British Graham Land Expedition of 1934–37 under John Rymill, and it was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Com ...

, and 41.15 km west of

Kyulevcha Nunatak Kyulevcha Nunatak ( bg, нунатак Кюлевча, ‘Nunatak Kyulevcha’ \'nu-na-tak kyu-'lev-cha\) is the rocky, partly ice-free ridge extending 4.17 km in northwest–southeast direction, 1.2 km wide, and rising to 1740 m

Oscar II Coast Oscar II Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Fairweather to the north, and Cape Alexander to the south. Discovered in 1893 by Captain C.A. Larsen, who named it for King Oscar II of Norway and Sweden. ...

. British mapping in 1976.

Maps

Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 66 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1976.

Notes

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

Antarctic Place-names Commission The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. The Commission approves Bulgarian place names in ...

. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Mitino Buttress.
SCAR

Composite Antarctic Gazetteer The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about t ...

External links

Mitino Buttress.
Copernix satellite image Mountains of Graham Land Bulgaria and the Antarctic Graham Coast {{GrahamCoast-geo-stub