Mancho Buttress is the ice-covered buttress rising to 1250 m on the northeast side of Detroit Plateau

Detroit Plateau

Detroit Plateau is a major interior plateau of Graham Land, with heights between 1,500 and 1,800 m. Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier, from which it extends some in a general southwest direction to Herbert Plateau. The plateau was observed from the air by...

 on Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...

 in Graham Land

Graham Land

Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which 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 the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

, Antarctica. It has precipitous and partly ice-free southwest slopes, and surmounts Aitkenhead Glacier

Aitkenhead Glacier

Aitkenhead Glacier is a long glacier flowing east-southeast from the Detroit Plateau, Graham Land, into Prince Gustav Channel...

 to the southwest and south.

The feature is named after Mancho Peak in Rila Mountain

Rila

Rila is a mountain range in southwestern Bulgaria and the highest mountain range of Bulgaria and the Balkans, with its highest peak being Musala at 2,925 m...

, Southwestern Bulgaria.

Location

Mancho Buttress is located at 63°54′58"S 58°50′52"W, which is 4.61 km northwest of Baley Nunatak

Baley Nunatak

Baley Nunatak is the rocky hill rising to 495 m in the southeast foothills of Mancho Buttress on the north side of Aitkenhead Glacier, on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica....

, 10.53 km south of Golesh Bluff

Golesh Bluff

Golesh Bluff is the ice-covered bluff rising to 1400 m on the north side of Detroit Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It has precipitous west slopes surmounting a tributary glacier that is flowing northwestwards into Pettus Glacier....

 and 8.24 km southwest of Senokos Nunatak

Senokos Nunatak

Senokos Nunatak is the rocky hill rising to 663 m in Dreatin Glacier on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica.The nunatak is named after the settlements of Senokos in Northeastern and Southwestern Bulgaria.-Location:...

. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.