Baumann Valley

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Baumann Valley
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Geographical location 77 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 77 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  E
Baumann Valley (Antarctica)
Baumann Valley

The Baumann Valley is one of the Antarctic dry valleys in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located on the western flank of the Nottage Ridge ridge in the eastern section of the Olympus Range of the Transantarctic Mountains .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the valley in 1997 after the US electrical engineer Clinton L. Baumann, who was part of the United States Geological Survey team between 1971 and 1972 whose work was carried out in an area of ​​6,000 km 2 between 160 ° and 164 ° longitude east and latitude 77 ° 15 ′ and 77 ° 45 ′ south led to the creation of eight topographical maps published by the survey in 1977 on a scale of 1: 50,000.

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