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Cockscomb Buttress (60°37′S 45°42′W / 60.617°S 45.700°W / -60.617; -45.700) is a prominent, isolated rock buttress rising to 465 metres (1,530 ft), standing 1 nautical mile (2 km) northwest of Echo Mountain and overlooking the east side of Norway Bight on the south coast of Coronation Island, in the South Orkney Islands. The name, which is descriptive, was given by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey following their survey of 1950.

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1. "Cockscomb Buttress". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 17 November 2011.

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

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