Buchia Buttress

Buchia Buttress (67°17′S 68°13′W / 67.283°S 68.217°W / -67.283; -68.217) is a rock buttress at the southwest end of Mount Bouvier on eastern Adelaide Island. This geological locality was investigated by the British Antarctic Survey, 1980–81, and found to contain marine fossils, including a bivalve species of the genus Buchia. The buttress was so was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1982.

References

This article incorporates public domain material from "Buchia Buttress". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

Adelaide Island

Stations and bases

Rothera Research Station
Teniente Luis Carvajal Villaroel Antarctic Base

Hills, peaks,
and nunatuks

Mount Barre
Mount Bodys
Mount Bouvier
Bond Nunatak
Dewar Nunatak
Mount Ditte
Mount Gaudry
Hunt Peak
Lincoln Nunatak
Mount Liotard
Mount Machatschek
Mount Mangin
Mount Reeves
Sighing Peak
Stokes Peaks
Mount Velain
Visser Hill

Glaciers

Other inland
features

Coastal features

Off-shore

Islands	Amiot Islands Anchorage Island Avian Island Brockhamp Islands Chatos Islands Cono Island Dion Islands Embassy Islands Esplin Islands Ginger Islands Guébriant Islands Henkes Islands Jenny Island Killingbeck Island Kirsty Island Koechlin Island Lagoon Island Léonie Island Léonie Islands Limpet Island Mikkelsen Islands Rigsby Islands Rocca Islands Sillard Islands Solitario Island Sorge Island Steinemann Island Ward Islands Webb Island
Reefs and banks	Box Reef Consul Reef Cox Reef Cumbers Reef Ives Bank Jennings Reef Lord Bank Regent Reef
Rocks	Cavalier Rock Cenobite Rocks Envoy Rock Fitton Rock Fullastern Rock Glover Rocks Hibbert Rock Launch Rock League Rock Mission Rock Nueva Rock Outlaw Rock Patience Rocks Skeen Rocks Sorpresa Rock
Straits	Barlas Channel Buchanan Passage Cole Channel Crosse Passage Elliott Passage The Gullet Johnston Passage Matha Strait Quest Channel Tickle Channel Woodfield Channel