Aronson Corner
| Aronson Corner | ||
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| location | Coatsland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Shackleton Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 80 ° 28 ′ 14 ″ S , 20 ° 55 ′ 39 ″ W | |
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The Aronson Corner is a valley in the East Antarctic Coats Land . It lies on the northeastern edge of a snowy ridge between Mummery Cliffs and Chevreul Cliffs in the Pioneers Escarpment of the Shackleton Range .
The first aerial photographs of the valley were taken in 1967 by the United States Navy . The British Antarctic Survey carried out a survey between 1968 and 1971. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1974 after the American entrepreneur Louis Vincent Aronson (1870–1940), inventor of the first working gasoline-powered lighter .
Web links
- Aronson Corner in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Aronson Corner on geographic.org (English)