Palindrome Buttress () is a conspicuous rock buttress, rising to about 905 m, marking the southern extremity of the north group of the
Walton Mountains, in central
Alexander Island,
Antarctica. The buttress was first sighted from the air by
Lincoln Ellsworth on November 23, 1935, and roughly mapped from photos obtained on that flight by
W.L.G. Joerg Wolfgang Louis Gottfried Joerg, better known as W. L. G. Joerg (February 6, 1885 – January 7, 1952) was an American geographer, and in particular an expert in the geography of the Arctic and Antarctic regions, who exercised broad influence on the ...
. Remapped in greater detail from air photos taken by the
Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition
The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) was an expedition from 1947–1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.
Background
Finn Ronne led the RARE which was the final privately sponsored exp ...
(RARE), 1947–48, by Searle of the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1960. So named by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee because the characteristic shape of the buttress is recognizable at a considerable distance from all quarters.
Rock formations on Alexander Island
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