Hale Valley
| Hale Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Darwin Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 79 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 156 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Hale Valley is a valley in the Darwin Mountains of the Transantarctic Mountains . It is the northernmost of three ice-free valleys east of the Midnight Plateau and is immediately south of Kennett Ridge .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2001 after the lichen researcher Mason Ellsworth Hale Jr. (1928–1990), who was active in six Antarctic summer campaigns in the Antarctic dry valleys from the 1980s onwards .
Web links
- Hale Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hale Valley on geographic.org (English)