David Valley
| David Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The David Valley is a small and partly ice-free valley in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Asgard Range , it lies above the Conrow Glacier and east of the Horowitz Ridge .
The biologist Roy Eugene Cameron (* 1929), head of the biology team of the United States Antarctic Research Program to study this valley between 1967 and 1968, named it after Charles N. David, a member of this team.
Web links
- David Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- David Valley on geographic.org (English)