Compton Valley
| Compton Valley | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Thiel Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 85 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 91 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Compton Valley is an icy valley in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . It lies in the Thiel Mountains on the north flank of the Ford massif between the Reed Ridge and Walker Spur .
The valley was explored between 1960 and 1961 by a team from the United States Geological Survey . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1962 after Lieutenant Romuald P. Compton of the United States Navy , who died on November 9, 1961 when a Lockheed P2V Neptune crashed near Wilkes Station .
Web links
- Compton Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Compton Valley on geographic.org (English)