Feistmantel Valley
| Feistmantel Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Allan Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 76 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Feistmantel Valley is a fossil-bearing valley in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Allan Hills , it is south of the Shimmering Icefield and west of Mount Watters .
The valley was explored in 1964 by a team working in the Allan Hills as part of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program . She named the valley after the geologist and palaeontologist Ottokar Feistmantel (1848-1891), a pioneer in researching the flora of the Triassic in Gondwana based on finds in India .
Web links
- Feistmantel Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Feistmantel Valley on geographic.org (English)