Cartwright Valley
| Cartwright Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Cartwright Valley is one of the Antarctic dry valleys in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Olympus Range lies the largely ice-free valley east of Mount Aeolus .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1998 after the American Keros Cartwright of the Illinois State Geological Survey , who carried out three campaigns between 1973 and 1976 as part of the drilling project in the Antarctic Dry Valleys for hydrogeological studies in the Victoria Valley , Wright Valley and Taylor Valley was involved.
Web links
- Cartwright Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cartwright Valley on geographic.org (English)