Gordon Valley
| Gordon Valley | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 84 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Gorden Valley is a small valley in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Queen Alexandra chain , it is west of Mount Falla . Its western half is occupied by a glacier tongue of the Walcott Firnfeld .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the valley in 1966 after the aurora researcher Mark A. Gordon, who worked at Hallett Station in 1959 as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program .
Web links
- Gordon Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gordon Valley on geographic.org (English)