Balham Valley
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 Taylor Glacier topographic map with Balham Valley |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Balham Valley is an ice-free valley between the Isle of Range and the Apocalypse Peaks in the Antarctic Victoria Land .
It was named on the occasion of the Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions (1958-1959) after Ronald (Ron) Walter Balham (1921-1999), a biologist with the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958), who was the first to investigate freshwater biology in this area had carried out.
Web links
- Balham Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Balham Valley on geographic.org (English)