Barwick Valley
| Barwick Valley | ||
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 Taylor Glacier topographic map with Barwick Valley |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Barwick Valley is an ice-free valley in East Antarctic Victoria Land . North of the Apocalypse Peaks , it extends from the Webb Glacier to the Victoria Valley .
It was named on the occasion of a campaign carried out from 1958 to 1959 as part of the New Zealand Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions after the biologist Richard Essex Barwick (1929-2012), participant of this and the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958).
Web links
- Barwick Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Barwick Valley on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Cooper: Evolution and adaptation: a tribute to Richard Essex Barwick. In: Australian Journal of Zoology (2014), 62, pp. 1–2.