Butler Summit
Butler Summit is a peak rising to about 1,000 metres in the extreme western part of the Dais in Wright Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Rhett Butler of Incorporated Research Institutions for…| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Don Juan Pond and Matsumoto Pond.
Don Juan Pond
Lake
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Don Juan Pond is a small and very shallow hypersaline lake in the western end of Wright Valley, Victoria Land, Antarctica, 9 kilometres west from Lake Vanda.
Matsumoto Pond
Lake
Matsumoto Pond is a pond south of Dais Col and 1.4 nautical miles west of Don Juan Pond in South Fork, Wright Valley, Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Japanese chemist Genki I.
Dais Col
Mountain saddle
The Wright Valley is a large east–west trending valley, formerly occupied by a glacier but now ice free except for Wright Upper Glacier at its head and Wright Lower Glacier at its mouth, in Victoria Land, Antarctica.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dais and Linnaeus Terrace.
Dais
Locality
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
The Wright Valley is a large east–west trending valley, formerly occupied by a glacier but now ice free except for Wright Upper Glacier at its head and Wright Lower Glacier at its mouth, in Victoria Land, Antarctica.
Linnaeus Terrace
Locality
Linnaeus Terrace is a rock terrace on the north side of Oliver Peak in the Asgard Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It is protected under the Antarctic Treaty System as Antarctic Specially Protected Area No.138 because it is one of the richest known sites for the cryptoendolithic communities that colonise the Beacon Sandstone.
Labyrinth
Locality
Photo: Dturme, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Labyrinth is an extensive flat upland area which has been deeply eroded, at the west end of Wright Valley, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was so named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition because the eroded dolerite of which it is formed gives an appearance of a labyrinth.
Butler Summit
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,000 metres
- Description: mountain in Ross Dependency, Antarctica
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-77.55285° or 77° 33′ 10″ southLongitude
161.10538° or 161° 6′ 19″ eastElevation
1,000 metres (3,281 feet)Named after
Rhett Butler of Incorporated Research InstitutionsOpen location code
2VJ3C4W4+V5OpenStreetMap ID
node 11109015866OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
6629785Wikidata ID
Q5002653
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Butler Summit” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Butler Summit”
- Dutch: “Butler Summit”
- German: “Butler Summit”
- Ladin: “Butler Summit”
- Low German: “Butler Summit”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Butler Summit”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Butler Summit”
- Swedish: “Butler Summit”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Don Quixote Pond and Williams Pond.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Butler Summit”. Photo: ravas51, CC BY-SA 2.0.