Barnacle Valley
| Barnacle Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Convoy Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 76 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Barnacle Valley ( English for barnacle valley ) is an ice-free valley in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is 3 miles west-northwest of Nunatak Dotson Ridge in the Convoy Range .
The team of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program , which worked in this valley between 1989 and 1990 , descriptively named it after the numerous polygonal press hills with which the valley floor is littered and which are reminiscent of oversized barnacles .
Web links
- Barnacle Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Barnacle Valley on geographic.org (English)