Alatna Valley
| Alatna Valley | ||
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 Topographic map sheet Convoy Range with Alatna Valley |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 76 ° 53 ' S , 161 ° 10' E | |
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| Type | Antarctic dry valley | |
| length | 16 km | |
The Alatna Valley is an ice-free valley in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is 6.5 km north of Mount Gran and extends in an east-northeast orientation over a length of 16 km along the southeast flank of the Convoy Range .
The American geologist Parker Emerson Calkin (1933-2017) from Tufts University undertook stratigraphic studies here from 1960 to 1961 . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the valley in 1963 after the USNS Alatna , a tanker used in Operation Deep Freeze in 1958–1959 and 1958–1960 .
Web links
- Alatna Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Alatna Valley on geographic.org (English)