Friedmann Valley

Friedmann Valley
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location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Quartermain Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Geographical location	77 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 77 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E

The Friedmann Valley is one of the Antarctic dry valleys in Victoria Land . In the Quartermain Mountains , it is west of Rector Ridge at the head of the Beacon Valley .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the valley in 1992 after the biologist Imre Friedmann (1921-2007) from the polar research center at Florida State University , who in all Antarctic summer campaigns between 1967 and 1987 teams of the United States Antarctic Research Program to study microorganisms in the Antarctic In 1976, together with his wife Roseli Ocampo Friedmann (1937–2005) , he was able to detect endolithic microorganisms in the sandstone layers of the so-called Beacon Supergroup .

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