Bratina Valley
| Bratina Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Bratina Valley is one of the Antarctic dry valleys in East Antarctic Victoria Land . The high valley lies on the east side of the Harris Ledge in the Olympus Range and opens north to the McKelvey Valley .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the valley in 2004 after the American microbiologist Bonnie Joe Bratina of Michigan State University , who had participated in four campaigns to study Lake Vanda as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program in the 1990s .
Web links
- Bratina Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bratina Valley on geographic.org (English)