Albert Valley
| Albert Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Apocalypse Peaks , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 22 '42 " S , 160 ° 55' 40" O | |
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The Albert Valley is a high valley in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It lies between the Conway Peak and the Wendler Spur in the Apocalypse Peaks mountain range . To the north the valley opens to the Barwick Valley .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the valley in 2005 after Mary Remley Albert (* 1954) from the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover , New Hampshire , who carried out field research on ice and snow structure between 1996 and 2003 as part of the International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Carried out expedition and belonged to numerous bodies on polar research.
Web links
- Albert Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Albert Valley on geographic.org (English)