Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Anderson Buttress

(Adelaide Island)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 67° 23' 38" S 67° 18' 5" W
Buttress about 900 m long on the north-eastern side of Gwendolyn Peak, Adelaide Island, to the west of Rose Bluff. Named for John Harvie McLeod Anderson (1957-1981) Antarctic field assistant at Rothera Research Station who died in a crevasse accident on Shambles Glacier, on 16 May 1981, along with Robert Atkinson.