Fritsen Valley
| Fritsen Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Fritsen Valley is a high valley in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Olympus Range , it is west of the Harris Ledge in the area north of Mount Hercules .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the valley in 2004 after the microbiologist Christian H. Fritsen from the Desert Research Institute in Reno , Nevada , who carried out research on the Antarctic pack ice and ice on the Antarctic lakes as part of the United States Antarctic Program , which began in 1992 would have.
Web links
- Fritsen Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fritsen Valley on geographic.org (English)